#primula

#PrimulaClevelandii. I don’t know why these ones were clustered like this but I’m not complaining. These were just about the last ones still blooming today.
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Vial’s Primrose / Orchideen-Primel (Primula vialii ‘Alba’)

Primrose ‘Jupiter White’

Seed source: www.saatkontor.de

Primula Auricula.  Metal engraving by Victor, based on the artwork of Pierre-Joseph Redoute, for the book, Choix des Plus Belles Fleurs et des Plus Beaux Fruits, published about 1830.

Spring is here

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Cowslip (Primula veris) (at Avnø Naturcenter)

More plant oddities! Part 3

This has probably become my favourite series, it takes time to find new material for these posts but I hope it’s worth the wait!

- 10-tepalled Fritillaria michailovskyi, they generally have 6 tepals

- Non-variegated Arabis ‘Rose Delight’ sporting bright yellow variegation

- Hybrid Primula of the polyanthus group with only one oddly pigmented flower

- 8-petalled Cyclamen hybrid, surpassing the 7-petalled one from episode 2

- Hybrid pansy with the regular 5 petals, but forming two distinct flowers with their own sexual organs

- Hybrid Cylamen sporting a beautiful example of chimerism

- Celosia cristata sporting proliferation on top of the fasciation it has been selected for

Check the equally odd Part 1&Part 2 and stay tuned for the next episode! 

Unusual bedding primulas

Important prerequisite to this post: I’m not a huge fan of the fancy colours and extravagant patterns of primroses bred and selected for bedding schemes, and much prefer the humble and unassuming Primula vulgaris I sometimes find on the hills. The few you’ve seen in my allotment were all saved from the skip at work for the sole purpose of providing early foragers with some food.    

BUT, certain cultivars are indeed striking in their oddity and I can’t help looking at them as interesting weirdos. Here are some I thought would be worth mentioning:

-Primula ‘Marli Candy Corn’. Simple enough you might call it elegant, it reminds me of some of my favourite roses. An outsider in this group.   

-Primula ‘Zebra Blue’. Tacky, but it’s blue, white and yellow, my favourite colour combination. 

-Primula ‘Sirococco Red Flame’. Even tackier. All the primulas in the Sirococco series are just as unique, but this one makes me think of a gorgeous sunset on the beach.

-Primula ‘Belarina Valentine’. A cheaper, living alternative to a bunch of red roses. Nothing less, nothing more. 

Note: I do not endorse BigHort -hope I can use your term without paying royalties @plantanarchy ;)- and the objectification of plants.      

Late winter flowers at the allotment

Today I spent hours working at the allotment in the heat and sunshine, it was glorious and felt more like late spring rather than late winter. Last night I couldn’t wait to see if I would find anything in bloom and I wasn’t disappointed! 

Most of the primulas, some of the crocuses, the largest of the hellebores and an early daffodil were enjoying the sun too, ready to be visited by the first insects to venture out of their winter shelters. 

Yesterday, at work, I also got to see the first few bumblebee queens of the year buzzing around: they just couldn’t resist the masses of tiny Calluna flowers. Let’s hope this odd spell of heat and sunshine isn’t followed by something catastrophic…in this period, last year, we were covered with snow and we still need to get through March, which is always unpredictable. Fingers crossed!

tanuki-kimono:

[Primula] a modern printed kimono by PoniaPon bringing back a Taisho era very cottage core design ^^

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