Primula 2013

Many thanks Amy, I have just ordered from them  ;)

Hoy wrote:

Dave, a pretty Linum anyway! Hope the Primulas survive!

Here's one that is currently doing okay Trond. Admittedly it's a purchased plant that has only been in my possession for a week...... ;D ;D

Primula capitata.

Cheers Dave.

I don't know if the smaller Primulas in Section Auriculastrum are popular, or indeed available, in the USA but in the UK and Ireland they are very popular indeed particularly within the "Showing" community. The ones I'm thinking of particularly are P. marginata, P. allionii and the hybrids of them, and P x pubescens. Many specialize in them, many think they all look the same and hate them. On the basis that a picture is worth a thousand words (Jimmy Webb thought so!) here are a few for you to consider.

Primula x pubescens 'Henry Hall'
P. 'Lindum Moonlight'
P. 'Lindum Wedgewood'

The Lindum series, probably allionii hybrids, were bred in Lincoln (England), Lindum being the Roman name for Lincoln.

A few more:-

Primula 'Lindum Malcolms Mate'
P. marginata 'Drake's Blue'
P. allionii 'Jackie Richards'
P. allionii 'Stradbrook Variegated'
P. allionii 'Sapphire'

... and yet more!

Primula 'Broadwell Milkmaid'
P. 'Eden Blue Star'  a border auricula-good in the open garden

A few pics, of variable quality, of Primula vulgaris forms in my garden:-

P. 'Ingram's Blue'
P. juliae (bought as but isn't!)
P. 'Maisie Michael'
P. 'Snowcushion'

and to finish a selection of self sown hybrid Primroses from my garden to which my juliae but isn't has contributed greatly

Nice bit of colour Claire and David.

Here's Primula maximowiczii from seed --flowering late it doesn't appear that it will form a longer stem---what a colour. :-* :-*

Cheers Dave

Absolutely gorgeous array of plants, David!
Primula maximowiczii is wonderful, Dave!  I grew it years ago and thought it was absolutely amazing.  
I don't have anything to compare to Claire's and Trond's but here is a curious one from the esteemed Pam Eveleigh at last year's CRAGS plant sale:
Primula palmata:

And a Primula allionii hybrid planted last year, 'Aire Mist':

Nothing to compare with that splendour here, unfortunately, Claire!  I'm so envious - I love candelabra primroses but have never had good results from them at all - too dry, too cold??  Yours are absolutely beautiful.

Primula scotica is amazingly tolerant of dry-ish conditions - I didn't expect that.  Here is a bunch on the edge of the tufa garden:

Primula x 'Wanda Red Shades'...or so it was said to be.  Hmm, I think it's another Primula elatior ssp. meyeri, no? Perhaps some tags got mixed up.

Primula elatior ssp. meyeri, going over:

Primula polyneura or one of those it is confused with, starting to bloom:

Primula rusbyi, on one of divisions I did a couple of years ago... whacking the old plant into chunks seems to have restored a bit of life, not an amazing amount though.

Lori wrote:

Primula rusbyi on one of divisions I did a couple of years ago... whacking the old plant into chunks seems to have restored a bit of life, not an amazing amount though.

That's interesting Lori
My plant P.rusbyi,(I think i raised it from seed as P. ellisiae ?), has been in pot for a number of years now and flowered reqularly with a far amount of neglect in terms of feeding, however since it's repot of two years ago I haven't seen any flowers....
Maybe it needs a whacking as well  :-\  :)

Cheers Dave

An update on the Primula rusbyi whacking... it does seem to have revitalized the divisions.  There is a blooming stalk on 3 divisions now.

Primula x juliana 'Allure":

Grown many years ago from seed that was said to be Primula polyneura... apparently more likely a hybrid with, or P. saxatilis?