Pacific Northwest Gardening: When to plant primroses?, 1 by shultman

shultman wrote:
No problem, Murmur -- I see that the activity on the forum is in partial hibernation, just like our gardens. I'm glad you confirmed that you've planted primroses this early, since I finally decided to go ahead and plan some anyway! I put in about 15 of them (along with some Erica 'Kramer's Red') in the corner focal point of our front yard. I'm not planning on putting any in the back...just along the parts that border walkways. They look really nice out there...at least much nicer than the dead stuff I replaced with them :>)

Many of my bulbs are already sprouting up...I think that's because we foolishly put food in the holes with the bulbs when we planted them. (That's what the instructions said to do. I learned later that I shouldn't feed them until spring.) Hope they survive the winter. We kept hearing last summer and early fall that we should expect a mild winter. Goes to show how much the weather forecasters really know. This colder than usual winter is apparently the downside of global warming. I'd almost enjoy it for its novelty, except that I'm worried about all those plants I put in last summer!