Shade Gardening: Passion for Primroses, 0 by Toxicodendron

Toxicodendron wrote:
Hi zonedenial,
I, too, love primroses! I have 6 of the double ones ordered from the sunfarm coop and am worrying that I may lose them eventually, but "nothing ventured, nothing gained". One thing I have discovered is placement for summer. I have a bed that gets full sun all winter and spring, then the trees leaf out and then ferns and hostas come up and the primulas are in full shade for the summer and fall. These are the ones that seem to survive the best. I mulch them loosely with pine straw for the winter, since we can't count on snow cover here. Here is one that is particularly hardy, and I divided it early this spring into 4 clumps. It did not miss a beat, and is flowering away.