Primulas 2012

[Michael J Campbell]

Primula watsonii
Primula waltonii ?

[Armin]

Michael,
exquisite primulas
Congratulation!

Have you raised them from seed?

[Hoy]

What do you think? Is this primula capitata? It is the first one of several plants of its kind. I got the  seed from Chris Chadwell a year ago.

[Magnar]

Everything is late here this summer, also the Primulas.

Primula reidii
Primula blinii  (was misnamed as P. bella)
Primula ioessa

[fleurbleue]

Lovely Primula ioessa, Magnar !

[David Nicholson]

Some very special Primulas there Magnar, lovely.

[Lesley Cox]

Quite beautiful. I can almost smell the P. reidii from here Magnar.   My P. bella leaves are like yours (or will be in the spring) but the flowers are not.  Not quite anyway.

Though different shades, these are the same stem.

[Magnar]

Lesley... Looking at your pics and also on the net, I find my plant may not be P. bella at all. I had the seeds from a collecting in the wild a few years ago, and I guess they have not been correctly identified.  Any suggestion to what my plant may be?

[Diane Clement]

Lesley... Looking at your pics and also on the net, I find my plant may not be P. bella at all. I had the seeds from a collecting in the wild a few years ago, and I guess they have not been correctly identified.  Any suggestion to what my plant may be?

Magnar, I think your plant is probably what has been called P florida which some of us have been growing recently from wild collected seed.  In the June edition of the AGS bulletin, John Richards now says this plant should be referred to as P blinii.  I believe the toothed leaves are diagnostic, and I have found it has a beautiful scent. 
Compare the pictures on Primula world site:
Primula bella 
Primula florida = P blinii

[Magnar]

Magnar, I think your plant is probably what has been called P florida which some of us have been growing recently from wild collected seed.  In the June edition of the AGS bulletin, John Richards now says this plant should be referred to as P blinii.  I believe the toothed leaves are diagnostic, and I have found it has a beautiful scent. 
Compare the pictures on Primula world site:
Primula bella 
Primula florida = P blinii

Thanks Diane, I have been thinking the same myself, så I guess I will change the label. I have a P. blinii from last year, and when it flowered now I notied than they look very much the same.

So now a  new task: Go searching for the real Primula bella 

[Maggi Young]

I think that David and Stella Rankin ( of Kevock) have grown and shown this plant so that may be a chance to obtain it. 

In "The Rock Garden " #126, pages 24 to 53, there is a super article:  Hunting for Primula in Yunnan
and Sichuan   by  Pam Eveleigh.
All these little beauties mentioned there.

[Lesley Cox]

I remember our discussion about my own plant a few months ago and the thought it may well be P. florida (blinii). What mine doesn't have though, because I cheqked at the time, was a beautiful scent - or any much scent at all.  Mine was grown from seed sent to me by Giles R so he may have a thought about it, depending on what his own source was. Mine is so far still quite green in this mid winter though last year it dies back to resting buds.

[David at Plantedd]

Hello, I'm new round these parts so I'm still finding my feet.  I think this is probably the right place to post this.

I grow a few of the Barnhaven seed strains and there are a couple that are coming into flower now.  Has anybody else got any confused primroses that are behaving oddly?  Maybe mine are just settling in - I started them from seed last year.

I'll take some photos this week.

[David Nicholson]

I have a hybrid primrose in flower as well as a red Cowslip.

[David at Plantedd]

Maybe it's just one of those things then?  Must say, it's quite nice to see a couple of primroses out at the same time as the salvia.