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Primula minor
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The Crystallophlomis section (often referred to as Nivalid primulas) consists of plants with long, more or less narrow leaves, generally upright, usually with white or pale yellow farina underneath. Each plant may have several flower stems, with one, two or three whorls of flowers, pink, purple, white or cream. In winter they form robust resting buds at ground level, and in the wild these would be covered with snow for a long time. The long, occasionally hot summers and too-warm winters make some of these plants difficult to grow in Britain, but others are long-lived, good garden plants. This section has a subsection Maximowiczii, which we list as a separate group of plants.

Primula minor is a species that is rarely seen in cultivation, but it is a beautiful, vigorous, small member of the section. It has very narrow (just 6 mm wide) leaves, and short stems with a whorl of wide-open, pink flowers. Each plant rapidly becomes a thicket (up to 20 crowns in 18 months from seed). Flowering is over an extremely long period; some years we have not been without flowers from mid March to at least the end of July.

PLANT SPECIFICS
Pot Size 9 cm pot
Width 15cm
Height 20cm
Family Primulaceae
Flowering Mid spring to mid summer
Garden habitat sun or partial shade
Soil acidic, moist, well drained soil
Plant category Alpine
Height range 6 - 20 cm

Code

PJ9-9
9 cm pot £4.00
Primula minor
Primula minor Primula minor flower
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