Primulas 2012

[Maggi Young]

A coincidence, Rudi, Primula 'Carina' will also be seen in the next International Rock Gardener.

[Lesley Cox]

Can almost smell the auiculas from here. 'Golden Splendour is a super double, such rich colour.

[ruweiss]

A coincidence, Rudi, Primula 'Carina' will also be seen in the next International Rock Gardener.
Franz P. who raised this fine Primula is a friend of ZZ and me.

[mark smyth]

My primroses are suffering because of the heat 

[Maggi Young]

A coincidence, Rudi, Primula 'Carina' will also be seen in the next International Rock Gardener.

 Franz P. who raised this fine Primula is a friend of ZZ and me.

Yes, that is the connection! It will be an update to Franto's garden  

[Yann]

Luc, living 40mn from Harelbek, i'm really surprise how your primula has early flowered.
Mine are still in buds, the ones in greenhouse has just started to flower except frondosa now gone.

[Armin]

So many nice primula images from all Obvious something one to become addicted.

A wee P. vulgaris hybrid appeared in my meadow. I like the bit strange color and two flowers have 4 pedals instead of 5.

[hadacekf]

Beautiful primula images!
Primula veris  likes my meadow and grow well. Self-sown seedlings will often appear.

[Lesley Cox]

How large is your meadow Franz? With the primulas, colchicums, crocuses, gentians, I'm surprised there is room for any grass or the yarrow that grows there too.

[hadacekf]

There is little grass, weed, yarrow, and some plants. The meadow is 200m ².

[Lesley Cox]

Well 200 square metres has been used so beautifully.

[ronm]

I don't know the name of this one, but it does well each year for us. When it dies back the dead leaves remain attached and the new growth comes through it the following year. I have always left the dead leaves on. Is this the best thing to do?

[Menai]

Having failed in repeated attempts to grow 'proper' primulas I have been amusing myself by sowing the seed from 2 unidentified polyanthus rescued from an overgrown bed in Treborth Botanic Garden. The variation in the progeny is wonderful. Photos attached of the more extreme seedlings from 2009. The plants are open pollinated but the parents are reasonably isolated from the primroses now rampant in my garden.
1. seed parent
2. pollen parent?
3. seedling 1. Almost P. veris
4. seedling 2. Red polyanthus
5. seedling 3. Red primrose

Is the red flush to the pedicels & calyces significant genetically?
Erle
Anglesey

[Diane Clement]

I don't know the name of this one, but it does well each year for us.

Looks like Primula frondosa, Ron.  From the thickness of the stem, it looks fasciated which it is prone to, although varies from year to year.  I don't think it matters whether you leave the old leaves on.

[David Nicholson]

agreed, frondosa. Leaving the old leaves on helps to protect the resting bud but once it starts into growth again there's no harm in snipping them off if they look untidy.