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Part II: Good Rock Garden Plants

by NARGS contributors

 Primula vulgaris
[prim-you-lah vul-gahr-is]

The wild primrose of English hedge-rows and European mountains forms tuffets of rough dark green leaves with dark-eyed, pale yellow flowers, each on its own stalk carried just above the foliage. There are subspecies ingwerseniana with white flowers from Mt. Olympus in Greece, and ssp. sibthorpii with pale pink blooms from the Balkans. This primula also likes a rich well-drained soil in semi-shade. Zones 4-8.