Primulas - March 2009

[Lvandelft]

There was a nice blue x pruhoniciana? Primula, shown at the Weekly Lisse Flower Show yesterday.
Is there someone who can tell me about, from where it originates? Parentage etc.if possible?

Primula Hall Barn Blue           

[David Nicholson]

Luit, I have replied on the Lisse thread but will write the same here. There is a Hall Barn and gardens in Norwich, Norfolk. brian Ellis or Tony Goode may be able to tell us more.

[Brian Ellis]

David and Luit, I do not know, but it is an old variety and I think it may have something to do with Hall Barn in Buckinghamshire - a Grade 2* historic garden.  I could well be wrong

[Lvandelft]

David and Brian, thank you for your comments.
I thought it being a new cultivar. It is such a special blue color!
Maybe we will hear more about it.
There are only a few nurseries who are offering it, I found out.

When I saw the plant yesterday I had the feeling it is a bit of a
different cross, as the other forms of P. x pruhoniciana. Therefore
my question.

[David Nicholson]

A small Primula that is flowering in my garden now:

Primula hirsuta ssp. valcuvianensis

Wim, can you tell me more please about this ssp. I can find no mention of it in John Richard's 'Primula'?

[WimB]

David,

it is sometimes spelled Primula hirsuta ssp. valcuvariensis (I don't know which one is the correct name). It's the same as Primula hirsuta with the only difference being that it is very lime-tolerant, it even grows in a block of tufa in my garden. I got mine from Reuvenkamp nursery in the Netherlands last year.

[David Nicholson]

Many thanks for that Wim.

[Giles]

Dear David,
It's from Northern Italy, (Varese region). Grows on Dolomitic limestone. Flowers near sessile. Wavy edged leaves.
I think I remember an article in the SRGC journal by the Taylors on 'new' primulas (grignensis;recubariensis; villosa infecta etc) but can't find it yet !
Do you have the CD with all the SRGC archive on?

[David Nicholson]

Yes Giles, I have the CD.

 
edit :  For some time now, all SRGC journal - The Rock Garden - except the few most recent ones - have been freely available to download  on the SRGC website - http://www.srgc.net/site/index.php/extensions/journal
 An index is also available from that page.

[Tony Willis]

try this link it gives the original description with photographs in the wild

http://www.arktisch-alpiner-garten.de/Bilder/3-22-012-P_h_valcuvianensis.pdf

[Lesley Cox]

..... but perfectly formed, Giles.

and alive! and doing well.

[Giles]

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