Primulas 2011.

[Giles]

Primula bellidifolia
Primula deflexa
Primula vulgaris sibthorpii seedling

[Giles]

3 modernish primulas
Primula 'Sundae'
Primula 'Sunshine Susie'
Primula 'Innisfree'

[Giles]

3 oldish primulas
'Old Port'
'McWatts Cream'
'Rowena'

[Giles]

I'm giving up growing them all in pots and am gradually planting them all out, and will protect with cloches if needed.
Those that are already planted out are doing very well.

[Giles]

'Blue Sapphire'
'Hall Barn Blue'
'Snowcushion'
P.vulgaris 'Viridis'

[Giles]

Primula deflexa
Primula Barnhaven Mauve Victorian
Primrose seedling

[Giles]

P. x wanda 'Tomato Red' (quite....'striking'    )
P. 'Lambrook Mauve'
P. 'Miss Indigo' ..taken earlier in the week.

[Lesley Cox]

I feally love those blue doubles. I have half a dozen different now, from very pale sky blue to the very deep 'Miss Indigo' and the Ballarine cobalt you showed earlier Giles (showed somewhere, can't see it on this thread). In a patch, they enhance each other beautifully.

[mark smyth]

Mark, I'm not sure that your primula is minima. Perhaps it depends on how much that species varies. I would have expected the foliage to be more toothed and certainly the flowers should be more deeply and evenly indented, each petal split almost into two parts. I wonder if yours could be P. x Bileckii which I don't have nowadays so my memory may be at fault. Could others comment please?

Lesley I think your are correct http://www.evermaynursery.com/images/store/productimages/1091/P.bilecki_lg.jpg

[johnw]

Mark, I'm not sure that your primula is minima. Perhaps it depends on how much that species varies. I would have expected the foliage to be more toothed and certainly the flowers should be more deeply and evenly indented, each petal split almost into two parts. I wonder if yours could be P. x Bileckii which I don't have nowadays so my memory may be at fault. Could others comment please?

Lesley I think your are correct http://www.evermaynursery.com/images/store/productimages/1091/P.bilecki_lg.jpg

Is this the same as P. x steinii which I have had in a trough for far too many years?  Seems mine is less pink.

johnw

[mark smyth]

now I'm confused

[Lesley Cox]

Well there are - or were at some stage - quite a few of these little auricula group hybrids and involving several of the small, pink/purple flowered species. There was x Bileckii, x Forsteri, x Heerii and others. Most have been in New Zealand at one time or another, going back over 50 years I imagine, but if any are still around the names have become confused so you're not the only one Mark.

[Maggi Young]

These hybrids are a bit if a mish-mash.....  I have seen P. x steinii as P. X forsteri f. steinii (P. hirsuta X P. minima)  as in this Primula World page:
http://www.primulaworld.com/pwweb/gallery/slides/XsteiniiMI1.html

Check the pictures back and forth of this one to see other hybrids. I'm sorry, I cannot find the source page for the hybrids on the PW site, only this link to a mid-way sequence.

[Giles]

Barnhaven's 'Little Egypt' strain
'Ingram's Blue'
'Tomato Red' (in better light)

[David Nicholson]

Keep 'em coming Giles, I'm enjoying these.