Primula sikkimensis red
Primulaceae
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Habitat:
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moist or wet places, shade or part shade
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Flowering:
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early summer
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Size:
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15
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30
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Soil:
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rich, with lots of humus
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Primula sikkimensis red-flowered form
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Price
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£5.00
(9 cm pot)
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Order code:
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PX3-9
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The Sikkimensis section contains first-rate plants for places in the garden that are not too hot and dry, or even are very wet. They die down completely in the winter, but in spring make clumps of rounded leaves in distinct stems. Then the tall flower stems grow, each bearing two or three large whorls of flowers. Each flower is on its own long stem (pedicel), so that they arch outwards and downwards. They are wonderfully scented, and are coloured white, cream, yellow, orange, red, maroon or purple, with the insides often covered in cream powder.
Primula sikkimensis red are descended from a red-flowered plant of Primula sikkimensis, but we believe that these are hybrids of the red-flowered plant with another, unknown Primula. They are smaller than typical sikkimensis, but have the same shape of leaf. The flowers are attractive dark red when they first open, and the colour then fades, so that the farina inside the flowers becomes dominant.
Other related plants:
Heads of hanging flowers in mixed colours. In Sikkimensis section.
Heads of hanging, white or violet flowers.
Heads of hanging, white flowers.
Heads of hanging, pale yellow flowers.
Lovely form with large, pale mauve-purple flowers.
Heads of hanging, purple flowers. In Sikkimensis section.
Heads of hanging flowers of port wine to purple
Small member of Sikkimensis section with pale yellow flowers.
One or two large umbels of scented, pale yellow or orange flowers.
Umbels of hanging flowers, probably deep red.
Umbels of hanging flowers, probably yellow or white, possibly deep red.
Umbels of hanging, pale yellow flowers.
Grown from seeds from plants with apricot-coloured flowers.
From Rowaling Himal in Nepal, possibly Primula sikkimensis.
From Nepal, from seed supposedly of Primula stuartii.
Collection from Nepal; hanging, pale yellow, scented flowers.
Collection from Nepal; hanging, pale yellow, scented flowers.
Grown from seeds from red-flowered plants.
Grown from seeds from red-flowered plants.
Collection with a proportion of red-flowered plants.
Large, hanging, pale yellow flowers on shorter stems than in most forms.
Hanging pale yellow flowers on shorter stems than in most forms.
Umbels of hanging, pale yellow flowers.
Umbels of hanging, pale yellow flowers.
Hanging pale yellow flowers.
Umbels of hanging, pale yellow flowers.
Umbels of hanging, pale yellow flowers; from high altitude.
Second generation grown from seeds from red-flowered plants.
Heads of hanging flowers ranging in colour through yellows, pinks and purples.