Hello, Primula Friends and Gardeners ~ It is the time of year to finish cleaning seeds, clear off the sorting table for other uses, and think abut what to do...
Hi Group, Just a line to wish all members of the group a very merry Christmas and a peaceful and prosperous new year. The group has been very quiet recently...
Merry Christmas! My name is Fumi and I just joined this list. I grow many types of plants from bromeliads to cactii and succulent, african violets, dahlias,...
Dear all, What exactly is P. allionii hybrids that I often encounter at various alpine/rock garden nurseries' on-line catalog? Are they crosses of different...
Primula enthusiasts, ... alpine/rock garden nurseries' on-line >catalog? I suspect that they may be both hybrids and selected clones. A clone should be written...
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Thanks, Jay, for youyr comment on P. allionii and on P. cusickiana and for your welcome. Linda had acutually written back to me earlier but apparently had...
Fumi and others, ... by...or at least, it would be very difficult >to be sure based on their ability to cross easily. The risks seems to be high to assume...
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Hi Fumi, Primula allionii is well known as a promiscuous individual it is known to cross easily both ways especially with Primula marginata but also with...
Hi, Fumi, Growing Primula allionii in my climate, even in a well-ventilated alpine house, is challenging. (We're being drenched again today -- an inch and a...
Hello Group, In recent weeks we have seen three strains of "rosebuds" in our local centres. The strains were, Rosie,Frilly and a new one that I have not seen...
It is with great sadness that we have to pass on the news that Doug Lochhead of Field House Nursery, died today in hospital in Nottingham. He had been ill for...
Hello! It is with pleasure to mention that there is an outstanding article of several pages on primulas in the April 2007 issue of Canadian Gardening...
I believe the Auricula will be "hot" this comming season, finally also here in Europe! Two Dutch gardenmagazines will have in their April- issue an article...
At 19.45 Europian continent-time this evening there's a Garden- programm at the German TV about the Auriculas in Goethe's garden in Weimar formal east-Germany....
1.LOUGHBOROUGH AGS MARCH 10 2007. NATIONAL AURICULA AND PRIMULA SOCIETY (MIDLAND AND WEST SECTION) GOLD MEDAL 2.KENT AGS SHOW 17 MARCH 2007. NATIONAL AURICULA...
Hi all, it's been very quiet of late, most unusual?? I appear to be having a problem this year in that quite a few of my Auriculas are beginning to flower on...
Hi David, Yes very quiet, thanks for breaking the silence, I am happy to throw my thoughts in for what they are worth. You say that "Apart from changing over...
Hi Terry, thanks for replying. I don't think we are ever going to get the same diversity in seasons that we used to get and amongst the likely sufferers will...
For everyone who can read Dutch(all of you off-course)see my first contribute at a Dutch gardenmagazine. They used photo's from last years Home & Gardensitem...
In response to David's query about weather conditions elsewhere, here are my comments. Weird, but not exceptionally unusual. Had a dry summer and fall. Usual...
Would anyone be able to advise me as of to the parentage of this cultivar so as to make my learning experience in growing it a bit more easy... Sowed 45 seed...
Hello, Kyle ~ The Wanda Supreme MIx is reputedly a set of progeny from a single plant called "Wanda", which was a hybrid cross between Primula juliae and a ...
According to Peter Ward in his book, Primroses and Polyanthus, The Juliae hybrid, 'Wanda', dates back to early 1900s. It is a cross between P. juliae and P....
The original 'Wanda' has little connection with the Wanda Hybrids and Wanda Supreme. Wanda Supreme is bascially an unusually hardy hybrid primrose with...
Hi Everyone, Things have been *very* silent on our forum for ever so long... and I am as responsible for this as the next person---but it does make we wonder...
Maybe Terry or another Auriculaphile could help me out with some information please. I bought an armfull of plants at todays NAPS Midlands and West South ...
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