Primula 2010

[Ragged Robin]

Great looking Primula Gerd, I do love the leaves of P marginata and the collection of photos of your Primula maximowiczii is fabulous - what a colour towering above the leaf rosette.

[partisangardener]

Gerd very beautiful your P. maximowiczii. I have two pins and two thrums. The seedpods of the pins are really swollen. Thrums still flowering. They were not that distinct as yours, and the red was more orange.
I purchased seeds too and they germinated readily. I planned to plant them in a trough in the ground with waterreservoir. What about wet from this reservoir in winter? Do I have to protect them from the wet winterconditions from above? Some glass?
Would you be interested to swap seeds?

[arisaema]

Gerd; do you mean 2009 or 2010? They've flowered in 4 months here with heavy feeding.

partisan; there's absolutely no need to protect it from winter wet

[Gerdk]

@ RR: Thanks for the compliments!

@ Axel: If there will be seeds we can swap, of course.

@ Arisaema: I ment 2009 and thought that was pretty fast, according your experience it seems Primula maximowiczii is an easy and quickly growing species.

Gerd

[arisaema]

They were fed like tomatoes and kept under glass, but I was surprised by the speed myself. P. tangutica grows just as vigorously, haven't tried any others from the section yet.

[TheOnionMan]

I've been lurking on this thread... I only have a couple Primula species, but like them all, seeing Primula maximowiczii creates primula lust.  My tried and true P. kisoana (pink form) is in bloom now.  I was at a NARGS chapter meeting last week, where they held a plant auction, but everything was going for "stupid" prices well beyond my price range; a white P. kisoana went for something like $25.

Two picture just snapped, one with P. kisoana in front of Jeffersonia dubia (I think I like the look of Jeffersonia just as much in foliage as in flower).  The second shot shows more kisoana, and some shoots: Arisaem sikokianum, Cypripedium reginae.

[johnw]

Despite the neglect this Primula marginata never fails to flower well.

johnw

[johnw]

Good grief Mark is that Jeffersonia on steroids?

Lovely Erythronium Wim.

johnw

[TheOnionMan]

Good grief Mark is that Jeffersonia on steroids?

Lovely Erythronium Wim.

johnw

And Jeffersonia dubia seeds around like a weed... such weeds to have .  Actually, when the plant is happy the foliage flush on J. dubia is really something; as I said before, I like them in foliage as much as in flower, the fleshy scallopy foliage all jammed in together into lush foliage domes.

By the way, that's one darned nice P. marginata there!

[Ragged Robin]

Despite the neglect this Primula marginata never fails to flower well.

johnw

Lucky you, it's really lovely John 

[johanneshoeller]

Primula auricula and 2 other P. auriculas (unknown hybrids) from the Upper Austrian Alps (found at 2500m and 1700m the last year). There you can only find auricula, clusiana and minima.

[johanneshoeller]

Some of my hybrids (villosa, hirsuta and auricula)

[Graham Catlow]

I really like many of the Primula that are shown in this thread but dont have many myself.
I think that Primula maximowiczii is amazing - maybe one for the future.

A couple of mine that are in flower now.
P. laurentiana in a trough
Two closer views of P. laurentiana

The next two are of a P. Hose in Hose. The label from the nursery named it Primula epiphylla Hose in Hose but I can't find any reference to epiphylla and Primulas can anyone shed any light on this please.

Graham

[Roma]

Graham,  your hose-in-hose primula looks like the one I have as 'Wanda Hose-in-hose'

[Graham Catlow]

Thanks Roma,
Wanda is what I was thinking. I just don't know where epiphylla came from.

Graham