Sunday, April 08, 2007
Primula Veris Sunset Shade
Primula veris is the common, usually pale yellow cowslip of the English countryside; lovely in its own right. Being a so-called candleabra primrose, its flowers are held up above the foliage for easy viewing, and away from mud spattering caused by April gullywashers. A commercial strain of P. veris comprises the Sunset Shades; plants selected in the orange to red spectrum. The orange ones have to be placed carefully, as orange clashes mightily with the usual mauve-pink spectrum of many other spring bulbs. The red selections, as above, are a different matter; they blend in nicely, yet are bright enough to light up a little gloomy spot like this one in a ravine in front of a large, grey rock. There is an apricot selection of P. veris Sunset Shades that I have a hankering to add to the garden... I'd like to combine it with a blue or puple flowering bulb; perhaps a hyacinth of some sort.
// posted by IBOY @ 12:23 PM 
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Beautiful. I've read novels that refered to cowslips but never known what they looked like.
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: April 09, 2007
: April 09, 2007
wow. what a great color! I can see that one paired with some of my alpine primroses as well as something blue.
It is really a cool plant. I like the plain vanilla pale yellow cowslip, but these colored ones are beaytiful. They really get loaded with flowers, too, and are pretty hardy.
Don
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