Primulas 2012

[ChrisB]

Lovely Giles.  Your soil looks really well nourished.  No wonder they don't grow well here....

[Giles]

Your soil looks really well nourished....

..at pH 7.8 - 8.0 something of a trial, believe me..

P.japonica
P.cockburniana
P.cernua
The last of the primroses

[Michael J Campbell]

Primula Japonica 'Valley Red'

[kalle-k.dk]

Beautiful Primula, especially your sieboldii Giles. I send pictures of three as I got this spring.

[fleurbleue]

Amazing flowers, Karl 

[Giles]

P.deflexa looking better now.

[Giles]

P.sieboldii seedlings

[Hoy]

Been in the woods here on the island today. Lots and lots of cowslips (Primula veris). Although it is common it is nice to find huge patches (many 1000) of it.

I found the other thread with P veris after I had posted these

[Lesley Cox]

P deflexa is a real beauty. Gorgeous colour, elegant habit and well proportioned stems above lovely, healthy foliage. Surely a show winner if potted.

And the pictures of P. veris show that even the most common plants can be superb when planted en masse  or when we come upon them in an unexpected way or place, performing to their natural beauty.

[ashley]

Lovely primulas Giles, as always; that P. deflexa is clearly very happy with you.

What a wonderful wild garden Trond.  Here it's hard to fine P. veris in such abundance any more.  An old meadow near where I live was ploughed recently, as our agriculture intensifies

Belatedly here are a few pictures and related questions.
Primula chionantha melanops (x2) SRGC seedex 63/3043      How does this differ from P. c. sinopurpurea?
P. tanneri also from the SRGC seedex (63/3125) which only flowered this year for the first time.  However the few flowers it produced (in a rather disturbing flesh pink) remained deep in the rosette.  Is this likely to be due to immaturity or to conditions?
P. x juliana 'Tomato red'
P. Silver laced group, going over now but a wonderful deep colour and lasting for weeks and weeks.

[Magnar]

A cold April and so far also May means that spring up here in teh north is alt least 2 weeks later that normal.

But at last I also have pics to show.

Primula sonchifolia is good this year

[Maggi Young]

Primula sonchifolia is good this year

Indeed it is!

[ranunculus]

Oh my, Magnar ... magnificent sight.

[Michael J Campbell]

A few in bloom here.

Primula capitata
Primula capitata closeup
Primula linda pope

[Lesley Cox]

A fabulous P. sonchifolia but I really like the very silver edge to the poly too.