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Primroses, Cowslips and their kin

  • Highly Bred Primroses

    Highly Bred Primroses (4)

  • Just the Native types

    Just the Native types (5)

  • Primula Belarina 'Pink Ice' Primula Belarina 'Pink Ice'

    Primula Belarina ‘Pink Ice’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Delightful frilly double primroses open creamy white and quickly develop a suffused fleckled pink glow which is strongest on the outermost petals. The central petals have a hint of lemon at the base. As it is sterile it flowers over a v ery long seasonn from late Autumn into early Summer. A sweet little poppet.
    Discount of 25p per plant for quantities 3 or over or for any 10 from the 'Higly Bred Primula' category

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  • Primula Belarina Amethyst Ice Primula Belarina Amethyst Ice

    Primula Belarina Amethyst Ice

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    A new range of primula hybrids that combine a compact growth habit with excellent sized double flowers produced from February right on through to Summer. The belarina series has been bred for their ability to go on and on flowering. 12x20cm. Primula Belarina Amethyst Ice has bright mauve purple flowers with a thin white edge.
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  • Primula Belarina Butter Yellow Primula Belarina Butter Yellow

    Primula Belarina Butter Yellow

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Primula Belarina Butter Yellow. A new range of primula hybrids that combine a compact growth habit with excellent sized double flowers produced from February right on through to Summer. The belarina series has been bred for their ability to go on and on flowering. 12x20cm. Butter Yellow has, most surprisingly, Buttery-yellow flowers with a collar of leafy bracts.
    Discount of 25p per plant for quantities 3 or over or for any 10 from the 'Higly Bred Primula' category

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  • Primula Belarina Cream Primula Belarina Cream

    Primula Belarina Cream

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Primula Belarina Cream. A new range of primula hybrids that combine a compact growth habit with excellent sized double flowers produced from February right on through to Summer. The belarina series has been bred for their ability to go on and on flowering. 12x20cm. 12x20cm. This form is a delicate shade of cream shaded lemon at centre with the most delightful complex scent.
    Discount of 25p per plant for quantities 3 or over or for any 10 from the 'Higly Bred Primula' category

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  • Primula elatior Primula elatior (Oxlip)

    Primula elatior (Oxlip)

    £3.75

    Potsize - 9cm

    Primula elatior (Oxlip). The wild form of our native Oxlip. From early spring a rosette of apple green foliage emerges which in april or may sends up stems from 10 to 30cm which are topped with a one sided umbel of short stalked primrose flowers. It was once prolific in eastern England from London to Cambridge and into Norfolk, where it was synonymous with acient woodland coppices and grew in large numbers, replacing the common primrose. It is easily grown in heavy rich soils, particularly over chalk, in shade or partial shade which do not dry out in summer.
    Discount of 30p per plant for quantities of 3 -9, 50p for 10 or over

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  • Primula sieboldii 'Snowdrop' Primula sieboldii 'Snowdrop'

    Primula sieboldii ‘Snowdrop’

    £6.50

    Potsize - 1L

    Primula sieboldii 'Snowdrop'. A really charming primula for growing in a cool moist position in leafy soil, where its creeping habit will allow it to spread nicely. Flowers are a pure, clean glistening white, produced in  April, in a delicate looking head, each a single whorl atop a 15cm stem. Leaves a pale soft green.
    Discount of 30p per plant for quantities of 3 or over

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  • Primula veris 'Sunset Shades' (red cowslip) Primula veris 'Sunset Shades' (red cowslip)

    Primula veris ‘Sunset Shades’ (red cowslip)

    £3.75
    Good for Bees

    Good for Bees

    Potsize - 9cm

    Primula veris 'Sunset Shades' (red cowslip). Cowslips with party dresses. It is likely that these cowslips share some of their genes with red flowered polyanthus and although still typically cowslip shaped, they are larger flowered, more flambouyant plants with flowers in shades of red and orange. They make super garden plants enjoying the same conditions as P.veris: they need to see the sun but without drying out in summer and flower in April to June.
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  • Primula veris (cowslip) and myosotis Primula veris (cowslip)

    Primula veris (cowslip)

    £3.75
    Good for Bees

    Good for Bees

    Potsize - 9cm

    Primula veris. Our native Cowslip hardly needs an introduction but sadly its native homes are becoming less common. Charming native primula with lopsided clusters of bright cheery yellow flowers on short stems. Excellent for naturalising in banks or meadows ideally in sunny situations on well drained alkaline soils. In wetter, heavier or shadier spots Primula vulgaris our native primrose is more likely to suceed. If you have ideal conditions and space you may well get enough flowers to make cowslip wine but better still to stick to chardonnay and leave the blossoms for the bumble bees who often pierce the backs of the calyx to sip the nectar.
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  • Primula vulgaris (Primrose) at Mapperton Gardens Primula vulgaris (Primrose)

    Primula vulgaris (Primrose)

    £3.75
    Bee Friendly

    Bee Friendly

    Potsize - 9cm

    Primula vulgaris (Primrose) (Primula acaulis subsp. acaulis) Whether grown at the front of a formal border or naturalised amongst grass and wild flowers, the cheerful native primrose is always sure to bring a ray of sunshine to the new year garden. We grow Primroses from seed collected from wild primroses growing in the banks of our Dorset nursery. As such you can be assured of getting the true colour, including the occasional flesh pink, rather than the colour sometimes coming from commercial seed. Happiest in a sunny bank. Ideal as a food source for the early bumblebees.
    Discount of 30p per plant for quantities of 3 -9, 50p for 10 or over

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  • Primula vulgaris subsp. sibthorpii Primula vulgaris subsp. sibthorpii

    Primula vulgaris subsp. sibthorpii

    £3.75

    Potsize - 9cm

    Primula vulgaris subsp. sibthorpii. (Primula acaulis subsp. rubra) These Primroses looks for all the world like our native Primrose which the fairies have painted pink. Their habit and flower shape are just the same but this subspecies hails from the eastern mediterranean and grows in similar shadier and cooler conditions to those that we associate with our own wild primrose. The flowers are usually purplish pink or rosy red and can flower from February to April.
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