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Primula denticulata Drumstick primula Z 3-8
A ball of flowers, like a lollipop, purple or blue with a yellow eye, atop each leafless stem, emerging from a base of wrinkled foliage. Flowers in spring.
A ball of flowers, like a lollipop, purple or blue with a yellow eye, atop each leafless stem, emerging from a base of wrinkled foliage. Flowers in spring.
Size: 12-18" x 12-18"
Care: Sun to shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Afghanistan, N. Pakistan, across the Himalaya to Yunnan, Sichuan and Guizhou in China.Collected by Dr. Frances Buchanan “in moist hills about Chitlong in Nepal.” Exotic Botany, vol. 2 (1805), Sir James Edward Smith (1759-1828).
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Primula elatior Oxlip Z 4-9
Nodding trumpets of soft yellow flowers with a dark yellow center atop upright stems
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Nodding trumpets of soft yellow flowers with a dark yellow center atop upright stems
Size: 10” x 10”
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil
Native: Europe
Wildlife Value: Deer and rabbit resistant. Attracts bees, butterflies, some moths and hummingbirds.
Awards: Plant Select® Central Rocky Mountain region; Royal Botanical Society Award of Garden MeritPrimula is from Italian “primavera” meaning first spring. Elatior means “tall”, all things being relative it’s taller than some Primulas but not very tall. In gardens since at least 1765. According to Philip Miller, Gardener’s Dictionary 1768, “they are much used in medicine.” Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811.
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Primula japonica Japanese primrose, Candelabra primrose in Japan called Kurin-sou Z 4-8
White, red, pink or purple primrose flowers in early summer. Each bearing a whorl of 3-6 flowers encircling each leafless stem, alternating with a bare section of leafless stem, then another whorl of flowers, then another section of bare stem, in tiers, like a ballerina’s tutu with bare midriff between. Basal mound of crinkled foliage
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White, red, pink or purple primrose flowers in early summer. Each bearing a whorl of 3-6 flowers encircling each leafless stem, alternating with a bare section of leafless stem, then another whorl of flowers, then another section of bare stem, in tiers, like a ballerina’s tutu with bare midriff between. Basal mound of crinkled foliage
Size: 18”x 18”
Care: sun to part shade in moist, acidic soil. Moist soil important.
Native: Japan
Awards: Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant Pick.Introduced to Western gardens by Robert Fortune, (1812-1889) English plant collector, 1870 but Jan 1876 issue of The Garden reported that it was “introduced some years ago by Mr. Bull…,” English plantsman. Listed in the 1873 catalog of Leichtlin’schen Gartens in Baden-Baden. British plant guru Wm. Robinson (1838-1895)called this “one of the best and most amiable of the species.” (1933)
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Primula veris Cowslip Z 3-8
Sunniest of yellow trumpet flowers announce the beginning of spring atop short, leafless stems
Sunniest of yellow trumpet flowers announce the beginning of spring atop short, leafless stems
Size: 8" x 8"
Care: part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Europe
Awards: England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit and Elisabeth Carey Miller Botanical Garden Great Plant PicksPrimula is Italian “primavera” meaning first spring. Veris is redundant, meaning flowers in spring. According to legend, Cowslip decorated the entrance to Norse goddess Fryda’s palace. The blossoms were used to make wine; a recipe from the 1700’s called for water, sugar, lemon juice, egg whites and a “peck of cowslips.” Culpepper, a 1500’s herbalist, reported that cowslip extract made women “more beautiful.” Cowslip was a favorite Shakespearean plant. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Jefferson received cowslip seeds in 1824. Pressed specimen in Emily Dickinson’s herbarium.
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Primula vulgaris syn. Primula acaulis English primrose Z 4-8
Primrose yellow blossoms in earliest of spring.
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Note: This is a plant not currently for sale. This is an archive page preserved for informational use.
Primrose yellow blossoms cheer on the earliest of spring.
Size: 6" x 6"
Care: shade in moist to moist well-drained soil. Immune to Walnut toxicity
Native: Europe
Awards: Received England’s Royal Horticultural Society Award of Merit.Primula is from Italian “primavera” meaning first spring. Vulgaris means common. Grown in the Eichstätt Garden, the garden of Johann Konrad von Gemmingen, prince bishop of Eichstätt in Bavaria, c. 1600. Grown by Jefferson. Grown at America’s 1st botanic garden, Elgin Botanic Garden 1811. Old medicinal uses to cure gout and headaches.
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Primula x bulleesiana Candelabra primrose Z 4-7
From clustered stems, each bearing a whorl of 3-6 flowers encircling each leafless stem alternating with a bare section of leafless stem, then another whorl of flowers, then another section of bare stem, in tiers, like a ballerina’s tutu with bare midriff between. Each whorl blooms in succession from the bottom up. This blooms June – July in a rainbow of colors - red, orange, rose, cream, lavender and purple.
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From clustered stems, each bearing a whorl of 3-6 flowers encircling each leafless stem alternating with a bare section of leafless stem, then another whorl of flowers, then another section of bare stem, in tiers, like a ballerina’s tutu with bare midriff between. Each whorl blooms in succession from the bottom up. This blooms June – July in a rainbow of colors – red, orange, rose, cream, lavender and purple.
Size: 18-24” x 12-18”
Care: Sun to part shade in moist to well-drained soil
Wildlife Value: Attracts butterflies. Deer resistant
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden Merit 1993Hybrid cross between Primula bulleyana and Primula beesiana (both parents are native to the Himalayas and China).
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Pulmonaria angustifolia Narrow-leaf lungwort, Blue cowslip Z 4-8
One of the earliest to flower - Pink turning azure blue, trumpet-shaped flowers in April- May. Fuzzy foliage.
Welcome spring with this very early flower – Pink trumpet-shaped flowers turn deep blue in early sprng.. Fuzzy foliage.
Size: 12”x 12”
Care: full to part shade in moist to moist well-drained soil.
Native: Austria & Hungary.
Wildlife Value: walnut and deer tolerant. Early source of nectar for bees.
Awards: Royal Horticultural Society Award of Garden MeritAngustifolia means “narrow leaves.” Grown in gardens before 1590’s.
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Pulmonaria saccharata ‘Mrs. Moon’ Greater lungwort, Bethlehem sage Z 3-8
In early spring funnel form pink flowers turn to blue above bristly, white mottled green foliage. Leaves attractive through fall
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In earliest spring funnel form pink flowers turn to blue above bristly, white mottled green foliage. Leaves attractive through fall
Size: 8-18” x 18-24”
Care: full to part shade in moist well-drained soil
Native: species France & Italy
Wildlife Value: walnut and deer tolerant. Early source of nectar for bees.The species originally described by English botanist and gardener to Queen Mary, Leonard Plukenet (1641-1706) .Described by Philip Miller (1768) as having “spotted leaves as if they were incrusted with sugar.” ‘Mrs. Moon’ cultivar offered for sale in 1938 by Gardenside Nurseries in Shelburne VT. Name Pulmonaria from Latin pulmo or lung (e.g.today’s pulmonary) because the blotched leaves were considered to resemble lung disease. Saccharata comes from Latin word for sugar because the white bristly leaves resembled sugar coating.
