Primula beesiana

Candelabra primula with rosy pink-purple, whorl-shaped inflorescences

Primula beesiana

Primula beesiana

Primula beesiana, two-litre container

Established plants in two-litre containers

Description

Primula beesiana is a lovely little candelabra primula from Asia that lights up shadier damp garden areas in spring with its vibrant flowers, becoming particularly striking when planted in drifts. Found throughout low-lying wooded areas in the damp margins of streams and ponds across central Asia, they are one of the earliest perennials to emerge and flower, offering an early promise of warmer months to come and an end to the greys of winter. The vibrant fresh green basal foliage that emerges in early spring is lightly crinkled and serves as an excellent foil to the flowering stems. These are adorned with whorls of rosy-purple-pink flowers all the way up, providing sustenance for the colour-starved gardener and nectar-starved pollinator in equal measure from mid-spring onwards.

These established, garden-ready plants have been grown in peat-free compost at our nursery in Cornwall, and are supplied in two-litre containers. The foliage will grow in clumps to about 20cm (8 inches) high, with flowers held high above the basal foliage to around 60cm (24 inches). The plant will spread to ultimately form a clump about 20-30cm (7-12 inches) wide. Where happy they will self-seed to form small colonies.

Growing Advice

Primulas love the cooler, damper climate of temperate countries. They are often found in woodland settings, where like other spring flowers they have developed to burst into growth as the soil warms and the days grow longer but before the leaves of the trees emerge overhead. They grow best in woodland margins, where the soil is reliably damp and light penetrates through the canopy of leafless trees in spring, before the leaves emerge in the trees to shade the plants from the harshest of the summer sun.

Primula beesiana shares the same preferred growing conditions as common primulas, with the exception that they can usually take a little more sun – as long as the soil stays reliably damp. They look great massed around water margins or on the margins of woodland settings. They flower a little later than common primulas, but in our view are such a bold presence that they are no less welcome when they do arrive!

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