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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #165 on: April 14, 2015, 06:34:53 PM »
Primula marginata, from a wild collection and supplied by Ardfearn.

Quite a 'flouncy' flower Matt, I like it. It prompted me to have a look at Ardfearn's Web Site but it seems to have disappeared.
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #166 on: April 14, 2015, 07:01:27 PM »
Ali from Ardfearn joined the forum just the other day, as it happens!

Site is here  http://www.ardfearn-nursery.co.uk/    but it seems to have disappeared from the links pages  - will re-add it!
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #167 on: April 14, 2015, 11:39:28 PM »
Primula x pubescens 'Freedom'-not sure about the name
P. 'Lismore Jewell'-Can't capture the colour

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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #168 on: April 15, 2015, 08:04:37 AM »
Primula x pubescens 'Freedom'-not sure about the name


Spot on Philip.
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #169 on: April 18, 2015, 03:51:18 PM »
Todays finds - a lovely pink and a pure white Primula vulgaris

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white vulgaris - get excited?
white vulgaris with a normal one for comparrison
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #171 on: April 19, 2015, 03:06:23 PM »

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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #172 on: April 19, 2015, 03:15:52 PM »
You could provided you keep them well watered.

I'd also cut back the foliage savagely at the time of splitting (everything off, about two inches above groundlevel, with a pair of scissors).
Life's easier if you plant them back in the ground (away from the self sown seedlings) rather than use pots.
Frost penetrates the rootball if they're in pots (and they die in bad winters);you also avoid serious problems with vine weevil, botrytis and red spider mite, if they are planted back in the open garden.
I've found, atleast here, that vine weevil treatment for plants in the open garden, isn't needed.

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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #173 on: April 19, 2015, 03:18:31 PM »
white vulgaris - get excited?
..quite a few white ones in the roadside banks 'round here..

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Re: Primula 2015
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #175 on: April 19, 2015, 03:25:25 PM »
- a lovely pink Primula vulgaris

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..I'd be suspicious of anything with streaky colouring in the petals...
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #176 on: April 19, 2015, 05:05:10 PM »
I'm going back tomorrow to get more photos of the white and pink one
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #177 on: April 19, 2015, 08:35:15 PM »
The reddest red can be.

Primula 'Cowichan Red' x 'Indian Red'
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #178 on: April 20, 2015, 02:02:03 PM »
 :)
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Re: Primula 2015
« Reply #179 on: April 20, 2015, 05:02:45 PM »
That is a nice red, Wim.
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