I have the same outcome with my primroses, which grow wild in my grass and self-seed with gay abandon. One plant has a pinkish hue and has made an appearance for the last three or four years, so again a case of cross-pollination.
I am sure the native ones will survive especially as we see them on verges where we never used to. It is nice to see some variation occasionally in the garden though...thanks for your feedback folks!
I've seen an orangey type of cowslip in the wild, at Down Bank in Kent, where there are thousands of cowslips and primroses. Also the odd primrose variant. Maybe a garden seed escapee, or cross-breeding - one primula was bright pink!
the hybrid between a Primrose and a Cowslip is a false Oxlip, and I noticed my first one in my garden this spring ,{Both Primrose and cowslip self seed prolfically in the garden}.They are yellow of course, but you can get all kinds of colours in garden Primroses.
The hybrids between primroses and cowslips are very varied aren't they? I was looking at some of mine this morning. There's large and multi-headed yellow, almost orange but cowslip shape and size, mauves, pinkish, upturned cowslip. There's only Ps veris and vulgaris to choose from as parents in the garden.
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That looks as if it's cross-pollinated with a polyanthus-type primula - they're very promiscuous.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
You can buy plants of orange cowslip As dove says they are very promiscuous
I have the same outcome with my primroses, which grow wild in my grass and self-seed with gay abandon. One plant has a pinkish hue and has made an appearance for the last three or four years, so again a case of cross-pollination.
Cowslips are yellow, I hope we dont lose the native breed.
Me too Lyn. It's those bees - they keep flitting from flower to flower totally indiscriminately
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I am sure the native ones will survive especially as we see them on verges where we never used to. It is nice to see some variation occasionally in the garden though...thanks for your feedback folks!
I've seen an orangey type of cowslip in the wild, at Down Bank in Kent, where there are thousands of cowslips and primroses. Also the odd primrose variant. Maybe a garden seed escapee, or cross-breeding - one primula was bright pink!
the hybrid between a Primrose and a Cowslip is a false Oxlip, and I noticed my first one in my garden this spring ,{Both Primrose and cowslip self seed prolfically in the garden}.They are yellow of course, but you can get all kinds of colours in garden Primroses.
The hybrids between primroses and cowslips are very varied aren't they? I was looking at some of mine this morning. There's large and multi-headed yellow, almost orange but cowslip shape and size, mauves, pinkish, upturned cowslip. There's only Ps veris and vulgaris to choose from as parents in the garden.
In the sticks near Peterborough
But I bet those people down the road have some of these in a tub
Those blessed bees get everywhere
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.