I received these seeds in trade, and as a primrose fan, I added them to a bed of sundrops, hoping for a yellow to compliment the pink. In...Read More one month, they have completely dwarfed my little prim garden, are 2-and-1/2 feet tall, with long, fat, 10-inch leaves and a lime green color. Fabulous! And while they like water, they do not wilt in the sun, as their smaller cousins do. I cannot wait to see the blooms, but I will plant them again as a foliage plant, whatever the color. A beautiful plant!
St. John's, NL (Zone 5b) | December 2004 | positive
This is an oddball in the Oreophlomis group as the flowers are yellow (the rest have white to pink flowers). Taxonomically, this species...Read More bridges the gap between the Auriculastrum (European Alpine Primroses) and the Asiatic Primroses. It is an easy species to grow if the soil can be kept consistently moist. It hails from the Caucaus Mountains where it grows in damp meadows and streamdies from 1400-3000m elevation. In general appearance it looks like a yellow-flowered version of P. rosea.
I received these seeds in trade, and as a primrose fan, I added them to a bed of sundrops, hoping for a yellow to compliment the pink. In...Read More
This is an oddball in the Oreophlomis group as the flowers are yellow (the rest have white to pink flowers). Taxonomically, this species...Read More