Primula 2015

[KenC]

Susan, I am so happy to see your success with Primula agleniana.  I also received seed (more than once) from  Bjornar and they germinated beautifully (with or without GA3) but after their first set of true leaves appeared they stopped growing and eventually faded away.  Why are the plants you desire most the hardest to win over?   Will you please share your method for success?

[Susan Band]

Ken. I pricked them out early on, just when the first true leaves formed, into jiffy plugs in a shady tunnel. After they grew on I planted them into fish boxes. This is just so I keep some stock for myself. They stayed in a very shady tunnel along with my nomocharis/lilies. In the spring I moved them outside, too early I think as the leaves got frosted. I then found a place in the stock beds for them so planted them in the ground. Nothing scientific about this, things get moved around here depending on space issues. Perhaps they did so well as I didn't realise they were so beautiful and just treated them like everything else. The more you want something the harder it is to grow

[Susan Band]

I have just found a couple of primula valentiniana seedlings poking up through the moss. They are now pricked into plugs. Hope they are as successful.

[Giles]

Primula sieboldii: pale pink seedlings
Primula siebodii from spent seed compost dumped at back of border....

[Roma]

Primula munroi

[Giles]

 

[Maggi Young]

I'm not sure if this has been mentioned before  - John Richard's book Primulas, is now available as a e-book.



"The classic text on the Genus Primula, "Primula" by John Richards is now available as an ebook for $15.09 on Google Play. This book gives a systematic overview of each species with an emphasis on comparisons between related species. There are also sections for Historical Introduction, Cultivation, Evolutionary History, Important Characters, Heterostyly & Homostyly and a Botanical Key. Note that there are differences between Richards and other authorities for the classification of some species."

http://www.primulaworld.blogspot.ca/2015/05/ebook-primula-by-john-richards.html

[David Nicholson]

I already have the book but this raises a question in my mind. If a book is published as an e-book does the author still receive royalties from such sales. I hope they do, I'd hate Google to amass further revenues to dodge paying tax on!

[Giles]

Primula kisoana var. shikokiana 'Iyobeni'

[Maggi Young]

Very nice colour, Giles - it that from Jodie at Barnhaven?

[Giles]

.. it was ....     

[Lesley Cox]

My 4 precious P. maximowiczii have died over winter. Surely not our colder-than-usual but more likely bogged. We were under water several times and it's STILL very wet.

Happier thugh, there was something on the Forum some time ago about some new Irish primulas, with dark foliage. I yearned for them at the time but recently a local nursery has brought in a few forms as tissue cultured material and I bought three this last week, 'Dunbeg,' 'Cloddah' and 'Innisfree.' (I need to nip out and check the spelling of the names but it's only 2C out there at present.) The flowers are very nice but the foliage is fantastic.

[Lesley Cox]

I like your spent compost group Giles. They are very attractive. Dumping old seed pot compost is always a good policy.

[Maggi Young]

Happier though, there was something on the Forum some time ago about some new Irish primulas, with dark foliage. I yearned for them at the time but recently a local nursery has brought in a few forms as tissue cultured material and I bought three this last week, 'Dunbeg,' 'Cloddah' and 'Innisfree.' (I need to nip out and check the spelling of the names but it's only 2C out there at present.) The flowers are very nice but the foliage is fantastic.

coo, that's a bit of luck Lesley - they are lovely aren't they?

[t00lie]

Happier thugh, there was something on the Forum some time ago about some new Irish primulas, with dark foliage. I yearned for them at the time but recently a local nursery has brought in a few forms as tissue cultured material and I bought three this last week, 'Dunbeg,' 'Cloddah' and 'Innisfree.' (I need to nip out and check the spelling of the names but it's only 2C out there at present.) The flowers are very nice but the foliage is fantastic.

When I saw them at your place Lesley I thought the Irish primulas were on steroids such was the size of the foliage...too much for me I'm afraid  . I prefer the more delicate ,such as this little honey who's name escapes me for the moment flowering in the sand crevice bed...