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Lesley Cox

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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #60 on: March 14, 2012, 11:02:43 PM »
Quote from: mark smyth on March 14, 2012, 08:43:37 PM
Innisfree was bred by Joe Kennedy from N. Ireland

As it would be with a name like that. What a super plant with that dark foliage and brilliant flower.
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #61 on: March 15, 2012, 08:12:06 AM »
Primula obconica kept indoors
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #62 on: March 16, 2012, 04:25:56 AM »
Lakriskongen - very beautiful obconica.

Here is my Primula vulgaris 'Quaker's Bonnet' getting soaked.
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Julie Lockwood
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #63 on: March 16, 2012, 01:27:42 PM »
5 primroses collected by a forumist in Turkey, and kindly sent to me  :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #64 on: March 16, 2012, 01:29:16 PM »
The remaining two:
(there are more, but they are a bit tatty from the weather)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #65 on: March 16, 2012, 01:43:14 PM »
Oxlip
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #66 on: March 16, 2012, 01:46:08 PM »
Red ground Gold Laced seedling
Harbinger
Gilded Ginger
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #67 on: March 16, 2012, 01:47:39 PM »
Does the third one in your first set differ much from sibthorpii Giles? Nice show.
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David Nicholson
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #68 on: March 16, 2012, 01:49:26 PM »
My favourite - a large smokey pink seedling
..and just to show how colourful this time of year can be (the Crescendo series of bedding polyanthus)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #69 on: March 16, 2012, 01:52:42 PM »
I'll leave that to someone braver than me, David. I just like growing them  :)
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #70 on: March 16, 2012, 02:17:13 PM »
 ;D
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David Nicholson
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #71 on: March 16, 2012, 02:22:02 PM »
Abolutely super primroses, Giles. The Turkish ones are clearly in very good hands!
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #72 on: March 16, 2012, 02:23:33 PM »
Quote from: Giles on March 16, 2012, 01:52:42 PM
I just like growing them

Me too and you do it very well Giles.  All your primroses are beautiful!
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Julie Lockwood
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #73 on: March 16, 2012, 06:04:19 PM »
A couple from me.

A Brian Burrow(?) allionii selection and P.allionii Crystal - opens white and turns pink.

 
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Re: Primulas 2012
« Reply #74 on: March 16, 2012, 06:20:51 PM »
Brian Burrow certainly raised some exceptional Primulas.
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David Nicholson
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