The tall primrose has strongly wrinkled, hairy, ovate leaves with a winged tail. Flowers gathered in one-sided umbels (height 10-30 (40) cm on shoots) are sulfur yellow with an orange ring in the throat. It blooms in March-May.Plants of this species are long-lived and grow best in partial shade.
They have been cultivated in gardens for a very long time. It is worth paying special attention to the original 'Gold Lace Black' variety, characterized by purple-black petals with a white border and a wide yellow throat.
Medicinal primula has wrinkled, oblong ovate leaves, killer-shaped on the underside, narrowed into a long, winged petiole. Strongly fragrant flowers, gathered in umbellate inflorescence on shoots 10-30 cm high, are yellow with 5 orange spots in the throat. It blooms in April-May.Plants of this species grow best in warm, sunny and dry places.They spread by themselves under favorable conditions.
Tooth primrose Primula denticulata comes from the Himalayas. It has oval-lanceolate leaves, wrinkled and quite thick, with fine toothed or entire edges, tapering into a petiole.10-30 cm high inflorescence shoots emerge before the leaves have fully developed and then gradually lengthen as the flowers bloom.
The flowers are gathered in magnificent spherical inflorescences of the following colors: lavender-pink, light purple, dark purple or white, such as in the 'Alba', pink 'Rosea' or magenta-red 'Rubin' cultivars.This primrose blooms from late March to May. Young plants bloom most profusely, therefore serrated primroses should be reproduced frequently by dividing them after flowering or by seeds.
Georgian primrose Primula juliae comes from the Caucasus. Thanks to the runners, it creates dense turf, several centimeters high.The leaves are round or kidney-shaped, with a corrugated edge, with a slight gloss on the top.Carmine-violet flowers with yellow eyes are set on short stalks. Blooms profusely in March-April. However, after 3-5 years of cultivation, flowering weakens and the plants need to be divided and transplanted to a new place.
Numerous hybrid varieties derive from the Georgian and the common primrose, referred to in many sources as the hybrid varieties of the Pruhonite primrose Primula x pruhoniciana. The most famous hybrid variety is 'Wanda' with purple-violet flowers with a yellow eye. The flowers of other varieties are mostly purple and carmine shades.
Mossy primrose Primula x pubescens is a spectacular hybrid, created as a result of crossing the gypsophila primrose with the alpine rough primrose Primula hirsuta.Plants of this species, like gypsophila, have smooth, leathery and powdery leaves.In our gardens we can gather varieties with different colors of flowers. Usually they are two-color or three-color flowers with a differently colored edge and eye.
