primroses - Gardening
The Denver Post: Tatroe: Primroses’ perky blooms, wrinkled leaves perk up early spring garden Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A basket of flowering primroses sat on my kitchen table from mid-January through Easter. These were the so-called English primrose, Primula vulgaris, native ...
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Tinkering can sometimes get one into trouble, but one area where tinkering is often a good thing is horticulture. And one fine example of that can be found in a new line of primroses called Primlet. The name primrose refers to a large number of plants, some of which are not primroses at all. Primroses are in fact part of the Primula family - Primula being Latin, and referring to the fact that ...
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A. Primroses are used as cool-season annuals here with Primula obconica, or German primrose, the possible exception. This is an excellent choice for fall-spring gardens and, although it goes dormant ... Imagine a bleak, chilly day. Now imagine a bouquet of cheery, cool-season blooms.
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Pansies. Perhaps petunias. But don't forget primroses. The name primrose is derived, in part, from the Latin primus, ... Primroses are heralds of spring. The prolonged cold weather meant a delay in their appearance – they’re usually over by March, but hedgerows are all a glimmer now with their bright stars.
Here at ... The Guardian: Country diary: primroses are so much more than pretty flowers