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First Primrose

Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
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I have a self-sown common primrose, primula nivalis, growing in a low wall. It has been in flower now for a couple of weeks. I haven't spotted any growing wild in verges yet. It is taking a battering with the weather at the moment poor thing but it just keeps going.

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  • ViewAheadViewAhead Posts: 866
    Me too!  😁  I have never planted any, but they pop up all over, including through the grass.  They are tough little things, that's for sure.  Lovely to have a bit of early colour.  
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    None here yet,   not that I’ve been outside for days.  I’ll have a look if we get a dry spot but I don’t thing they’ll be out for long while here.  I had some of the gaudy coloured ones out before Christmas,  but hey seen to flower constantly. 
    Weather’s atrocious. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I've had some wild ones in bloom both inside and outside the garden for a week or so, it's been very mild here. They are so lovely to see when the weather's so drear.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • FairygirlFairygirl Posts: 55,117
    They [P. nivalis]  flower on and off all year round here  :)
    It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....



    I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 15,039
    And, here.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • bertrand-mabelbertrand-mabel Posts: 2,697
    Ours having been flowering for a couple of weeks but not as many as will be next year. So great to see the lovely pale yellow flowers during these dark days.
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    Mine originally came from my mother's garden, she lived in the country with fields and a wood close by so native primroses. They seem to like my garden and have self seeded all over the place. I love to see them in bloom as it reminds me of my mum. I also dug up some of her wild violets after she died and they too, have seeded, somewhat too vigorously, in this garden.
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • Joyce GoldenlilyJoyce Goldenlily Posts: 2,933
    I have a pink-violet in the garden which is really invasive. No idea what it is, it travelled to Cornwall in one of my containers. Sadly it has no perfume or I would not feel so anti towards it. I leave the primroses to do their own thing, they are so lovely, the same with the forget me nots. I do transplant some of them from between the paving slabs.
  • Songbird-2Songbird-2 Posts: 2,349
    Ours are getting nibbled constantly by slugs even in the winter.  I put a dome over them once and in the morning found a slug had made it's up the outside of the dome and had got in the holes on the top of the dome! It doesn't seem to bother them long term though as they do flower eventually.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Not here yet.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

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