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Primula japonica 'Fuji'
The candelabra primulas (the Proliferae section) are wonderful plants, originating from China and the Himalaya, for woodland or damp, even extremely wet, places. They make clumps of strong leaves, deciduous in some species and persisting through the winter in others, and then send up their tall stems. At intervals up the stems there are whorls of ten or so flowers, each ring opening in succession, perhaps one every five or six days, . As there can be up to six, even seven, whorls, that gives an exceptional flowering period. So there can be a mass of colour – and that colour can be brilliant orange or yellow, red, pink, white, even dark maroon. Primula japonica 'Fuji' is a form of this woodland species with tiers of white flowers with a yellow eye. It is sometimes known as 'Fuji White' and sometimes as Fuji hybrids, but there is nothing that I can see to suggest that it is a hybrid. Like all Primula japonica colour forms, it usually comes true from seed.
PLANT SPECIFICS |
Pot Size |
1 litre pot |
Width |
30cm |
Height |
80cm |
Family |
Primulaceae |
Flowering |
Summer |
Garden habitat |
partial shade |
Soil |
fertile, well drained soil |
Plant category |
Herbaceous |
Height range |
60 cm - 1.2 m |
Code |
PJQ-1 |
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