The primulas in section Yunnanensis include some small and rather delicate-looking species, but they also include some that are small but remarkably robust, and which can flower from March to October. Primula florida and blinii are excellent in this respect. They are all delightful little primulas, with one or several rosettes of small, toothed leaves, from which emerge the relatively tall stems (10 cm is tall in this context) with several pink, bell-shaped flowers. So far we have kept plants in pots in a frame, with glass cover in winter and shade netting in summer, where they have flourished.

Primula rupicola has been separated out from a collection of plants that included both Primula rupicola and souliei, as well as hybrids. The flowers of rupicola are more flat-faced than those of souliei, several to each umbel, and are clear rosy pink - except that we have had a single plant with pure white flowers. A plant for a cool, moist place, probably in a pot rather than roughing it outside.