Primula marginata Lemon Sorbet

[SueG]

I bought a small plant of this at Ponteland show yesterday but can find nothing out about it. I've tried searching the forum but again nothing. Does anyone have any more info about this plant, I believe it's not particularly common but don't know why. The plant I got seems a really healthy potful so lack of vigour seems unlikely, maybe it just doesn't flower well.
Thanks
Sue

[David Nicholson]

Sue, never heard of it before. I hesitate to say (particularly to someone with your experience) but are you sure it's a marginata and not a pubescens or an Auricula

[Martinr]

Sue, try googling it. There are a number of link suggesting it's P. auricula rather than marginata and a link to a photograph on the AGS site forum taken at Harrogate in 2008

[mark smyth]

http://www.alpinegardensociety.net/discussion/atshows/North+of+England+Show+BC+Sections/131/

[Maggi Young]

I was just about to post that link myself! Seeing the photo there you can see the super toothed margins to the leaves which certainly look as though marginata might be involved..... with auricula for the colour???

[Lesley Cox]

Was just about to make the same remark Maggi. Auricula flower over marginata foliage. If one thinks of it as a yellow marginata form, it would have to be quite special.

[Rodger Whitlock]

I hazard the guess that it's of American origin. One of the oddities of the horticultural world is that American cultivar names are often related to food: Kniphofia 'Vanilla', Echinacea 'Macaroni and Cheese', E. 'Tomato Soup', etc.

[If someone points out that these examples did not originate in the US, my theory is toast.]

[Paul T]

Rodger,

Well at least if your theory is toast it will go well with the Tomato Soup and the Macaronia and Cheese.