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Primula Vulgaris Green Lace.

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  • Lovely photos, thanks every for the advice. I'll leave till next year. Must have missed them by a week as I called garden centres a few weeks back. I needed the green for the green bed at the school. Will be summer bedding and perennials coming out soon so they will be the show piece. 
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    If you can find an online supplier, you can often ask to be contacted when they're in stock again  :)
    Edrom Nurseries stocks a large range of primulas so it could be worth contacting them about it. 
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • Butterfly66Butterfly66 Posts: 970
    We have more primroses this year than we have had for a while. I don’t give mine any attention or care and they reappear every year, although in different numbers and occasionally different places
     If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”—Marcus Tullius Cicero
    East facing, top of a hill clay-loam, cultivated for centuries (7 years by me). Birmingham
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    edited April 2023
    @james-HYumfQs . Just to add I always handle primulas with gloves they cause my skin to itch. 
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    My garden is a country cottage style,  I don’t really like the unnatural coloured primulas,  they don’t suit here although I do have a few.these are my favourites ,  looking windswept as usual 😀

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • You're right @Butterfly66 they just continue to reappear!!


  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    You're right @Butterfly66 they just continue to reappear!!


    Oh for a permanently moist soil.  

    I created an artificial ditch.  I filled it with (confidential) computer print-outs and topped with compost.  I grew candelabra varities for a number of years, magnificent.  They never lasted more than 3 years.  And they never sef-seeded.  I had to collect the seeda sow them speciically.  It became to much like hard work.  NOw the ditch is ferns.
     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    This is the place to see candelabra primulas https://icenipost.com/fairhaven-garden-candelabra-primula-tours-cream-teas/ 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • Silver surferSilver surfer Posts: 4,719
    Hi everyone, is it too late now to buy these green petalled beauties ? I was told to call back end of march but everywhere is sold out. Thanks 
    James this Primula seems very popular in North America...less so here in UK.
    Quote link below...

    "The rosette-forming Primula 'Green Lace' was bred by Sandra Tuffin, who owned Uncommon Ground Nursery in Wardsville Ontario, and introduced the plant into the trade in 2002. I first spied a drift of this plant in 2007 at the Terra Nova Nursery's display garden in Canby, Oregon. The lime-green flowers with yellow throats and red veining covered the plants, obliterating the foliage beneath them"

    https://www.rainyside.com/plant_gallery/perennials/PrimulaGreenLace.html

    More pics...

    https://www.google.com/search?q="primula+green+lace"&client=firefox-b-d&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwj-kZmz4Jz-AhVbQUEAHcvHBksQ_AUoAXoECAIQAw&biw=1280&bih=595&dpr=1.5
    Perthshire. SCOTLAND .
  • bédébédé Posts: 3,095
    edited April 2023
    I am straying off the theme slightly, but what are these?  Oxlip (no "s"  apparently);
    Pic 1
     

    Pic 2


    Pic 3 for setting d pic 2. 

    Primroses occur naturally, but not rampantly.  I have introduced cowslips, but some distance away.  I grew some oxlips from bought seed many years ago.

    These might be oxlips  or false oxlips.  What would you think?



     location: Surrey Hills, England, ex-woodland acidic sand.
    "Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
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