The only option is to only allow them to provide their color for a couple of weeks, and then re-set them into the garden.Ī. Primroses in container displays? I use them this way too, but I treat them as disposable plants if I do so. They are worth growing, if you have the right spot for them, but there are some things I would avoid if you want them to survive for a few years. Here we are in April, and Primrose plants are beginning to appear on the shelves at the garden centers, and once again, I am tempted to buy some ( and, I now will, since I have learned more about this genus than I knew ten years ago), and this fact has me thinking – how many of you have tried growing primroses and failed? I can’t cover the entire genus of primula in one post, but I can focus on 5 of the easiest to grow in the garden. Yet it’s pretty clear that few gardeners, even somewhat accomplished ones, seem to be able to master growing them. Like most plant family’s, there are those which are easier, and those which are more challenging. Primroses, or those plants in genus Primula, can be challenging. I think many of us get into our head this image of what primroses should look like in the garden, but few of us ever achieve this vision. But all of that changed, once I joined the American Primrose Society, and started visiting gardens in New England that not only had primroses in the spring, but also found some with loads of primroses. USDA Zone 5, New England, and my neighbors and friends gardens all reinforced this theory – none of them ever had primrose borders or plants that wintered over. I wrote it all off for years as something not that I was doing wrong, but that my lack of wintering over primroses was because of our climate. Sure, I could buy pre-grown plants in the late winter and spring, and set them into containers and into garden displays, but they rarely or never returned. I’ve struggled with growing primroses, and I suspect that I am not alone. Primula elatior (this one grown by primrose expert Amy Olmsted in Vermont) as dug from the garden for a primrose exhibition, proves how resilient primroses can be in the spring, as all tolerate being dug and potted for a few days and brought indoors, only later to be returned to the garden often after dividing them (this is usually what most growers do).
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