Gardener and Photographer with a love of Roses and a magpie-eye for all things Horticultural
Red Hot Poker Primrose/Orchid Primrose/Vial's Primrose Primrose vialii AGM Red-tipped pyramids of pink cover the woodland floor when Primula vialii is in flower. This award-winning plant is excellent for late spring and early summer colour. plant in groups in fertile, moisture-retentive, sheltered sites cool and humid conditions in the open or part shade It emerges late in…
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Calling into Kew this afternoon (I am making the most of my Hillier Gardens membership card), the plant centre had the most beautiful collection of auriculas, yours for £10 each, including Victorian clay pot! Difficult not to fall in love, sell the family silver and start a collection...
Shaun is an auricula, a primrose, and I turn to a book I picked up recently, The Gardeners' Enquire Within, Jubilee Souvenir 1930, Editor A J Macself, (Editor of Amateur Gardening), for details of this Florists' Flower, for that is what an auricula is, a Florists' Flower. This term really has no connection with the…
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