Light on the green plants around the Japanese Primroses
Yellow-green or Blue-white? Maybe the true color was somewhere between these two photos… but even if it’s slightlly blurry, I like the blue better, don’t you?
Light on the green plants around the Japanese Primroses
Yellow-green or Blue-white? Maybe the true color was somewhere between these two photos… but even if it’s slightlly blurry, I like the blue better, don’t you?
More primroses from Claudio Baldazzi
Claudio gave me about 50 plants - 5 different varieties. This is the brightest and tallest, and if mixed with a lot of yellow or white, isn’t too bad.
Pink primroses - Galeazza Garden
These are the kind of flowers I don’t really like at all, but don’t dislike enough to dig up and give away… so here they stay…
Now wait a second… I don’t want this garden to be full of stuff I’m indifferent to!
OK, decided. I’ll dig them up when I have a chance!
Primroses in the Galeazza Garden
I noramlly hate bright, gaudy colours in the garden, but this almost colourless pink primrose is one of my least favourites of all… oddly enough it looks subtle and elegant in a photo! In real life it is just dim… not white, not bright, not interesting, not warm or cool or fresh… I guess it could best be described as “corpse pink”… yes. That’s it!
Primula Polyanthus Group
Not sure about this name…
Rare Plant of the Day - Primula veris? (Double Funnel Cowslip?)
I can’t find this primrose anywhere in books or the internet, and after a while gave up looking through over 400 species… It has a kind of double (funnel inside a funnel) flower, but when you put “double primrose” in Google you can imagine what you get - those primroses with loads of petals that look like roses…
I’m guessing this is some kind of spin-off of Primula veris, but would be delighted to be corrected…
Viola canina
is known as Dog violet or Heath violet, and I guess that’s what was growing all over through the castle property (especially in the woods) when I got here. I’ve transplanted lots of them and introduced an ugly but somehow interesting pink variety as well as a smaller white version. The pink violets (those kitschy oxymorons) clash like hell with the pale yellow primroses, but they were a gift, people ooh and aah over them, and no woodland could or should be perfect, I suppose.
Primula vulgaris
Primroses quickly get thick and clumpy, and are easily divided. This blob was planted three years ago as a single tuft and already has become big enough to divide into 16 “new” plants.
For Toshiko.
For you - and from you! Thank you. I remember our walk around the flea maket in Kyoto in November. Now it’s March in the Garden of Galeazza… I hope you’re OK, my dear.
My prim little wildling…
Only the English can get away with this garden gush. I know they don’t write like this anymore, but part of me wishes they still could and would. This book was published in 1946, but looks and sounds even older. The primrose poem which opens Chapter XVI had no name under it, so must be from the author himself, George M. Taylor A.H.R.H.S. (Is that some title to do with the Royal Horticultural Society?)
Primula vulgaris - Primroses
A few posts ago I wrote about yellow flowers of spring and the theory that yellow is more common in early spring than any other colour, (I know there are a million exceptions, but just bear with me) and if this is true WHY? - maybe yellow attracts more insect attention - pollination? This clump of yellow primroses is kindly cooperating with my theory - yellow is blooming now, while the pink, purple, and reddish/burgundy primroses are much further behind…
It ain’t just a coincidence, my friends, it’s science… just don’t ask me for details.
