Specialty Gardening: By special request (part 2), 1 by wallaby1

wallaby1 wrote:
I'm extremely happy with the primulas! I have bought seed more than once only to find it hasn't grown, but my own fresh seed did, late autumn sowing to early winter I think is best. Suzy you have done OK!

I got a mix of candelabras from an ebay seller I thought would have good seed, but none grew and I wanted lots! I may just take some divisions off mine if I want some in other places, at least I know they do well.

Tam what sort of Primulas do you have? I have tried others but many seem to die, one was a red variety of a yellow one, I think P florindae, I tried P marginata seed which didn't grow, P capitata ssp mooreana which grew well, flowered and completely disappeared over winter!

Vi I had some lovely yellow ones with a bronze tint that I grew from seed off one that was already here, it looked like a Wanda hybrid, and they seemed to do OK but not as well as these. They got dug up, grrr, never let a male dig unattended! I loved the subtle shades, some Wanda hybrids do keep returning and are perhaps a good cross pollinator.

Susan, I hope your weather is treating you better than ours is at the moment, I have made good progress but the weather just isn't behaving itself, dull, windy, cold! I'm just not getting the days I need to do all I want to do!

Can you all see my Pheasant visitor in the shrubs? I took it on zoom through the kitchen window, then went close and it was sitting under the hedge, but it ran off when it saw me. They come into the garden sometimes, they are bred for shooting but I haven't seen a shooting party for a long time, just as well!