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Primula weirdnesses (cue: RSH)
When we moved into this house in 1978, there were some primulas that I took to be horticultural polyanthus, though with nearly cowslip-shaped flowers. The leaves were right, the umbels were generally multilateral, and the colours were yellow or dark red (especially yellow in the centre and dark red elsewhere). Recently, they have got a bit annoying, so I have moved the survivors to our naturalised bulb area, but the bizarre thing is that half of them now fit my books' descriptions of cowslips, with yellow flowers with well-defined orange markings, one-sided umbels and leaves truncated at the base. I am too rusty and old to be sure whether they are appropriately scented. My books and a Web searches leave me totally baffled as to what horticultural polyanthus are botanically, and Wikipedia has a picture of red cowslips that match what I have in appearance. So have they bred themselves back to close to P. veris? As Archie said of Mehitabel's kits, Boss, can such things be? Regards, Nick Maclaren. |
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