Description
Primulas are a real symbol of spring. Found throughout wooded areas and on the margins or streams and paths across Europe, but particularly here in the UK, 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. What they lack in size they more than make up for with mounds of brightly coloured flowers – this cultivar has bright pink flowers, edged with a darker shade of pink, leading to a yellow centre. The flowers grow in clusters held above rosettes of rich green, oval-shaped foliage.
These plants have been grown at our nursery in Cornwall and are supplied in 1 litre containers (the price is for 2 of these plants). The foliage will grow in clumps to about 15cm (6 inches) high, with flowers held a few cms above this, and 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 European 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.
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