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Jam Lady



Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2501
Location: New Jersey, USA
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 16 3:02 am    Post subject: Wanted - Primrose Seed Reply with quote
    

Help a gardener out? I would adore some fresh Primula vulgaris seed, when ripe.

GZ mentioned that she saw the first primroses in bloom.

PM me if you might oblige. Maybe there's something I can swap back at you . . .

Hairyloon



Joined: 20 Nov 2008
Posts: 15425
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 16 8:29 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Do they seed well? They spread well enough that it never occurred to me to trouble with seeds...

Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 16 9:08 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

By the time it was ripe last year I'd forgot you where after some.
It wont be ripe until early June.

Jam Lady



Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2501
Location: New Jersey, USA
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 16 3:08 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Primrose seed is very fine. One of my older gardening books suggests setting a brick in a pan of water, with a thin layer of potting mix on top. Sow the seed on the soil, do not cover (typical with fine seed) and this provides nice, moist but not soggy germinating conditions.

I used to have a plant import permit but things are now so restricted and complicated that it wasn't worth keeping. Seeds would be lovely.

Tavascarow



Joined: 06 Aug 2006
Posts: 8407
Location: South Cornwall
PostPosted: Tue Mar 08, 16 5:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

They like a cool shady root run.
Anything above 15c & they wont germinate.
Ideally 10c to 12c.
When I've germinated primula species I surface sow them as Jam Lady says, then put them in the cool pantry.
They would be ok outdoors against a north wall but small seedlings are prone to browsing by molluscs hence indoors.

Mistress Rose



Joined: 21 Jul 2011
Posts: 15539

PostPosted: Wed Mar 09, 16 7:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

Did you get my PM Jam Lady.

Saw a few primroses in the woods yesterday up the track to the yard.

Bodger



Joined: 23 May 2006
Posts: 13524

PostPosted: Fri Mar 11, 16 2:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote
    

My order from this company popped through the door this morning. If I'd seen this post years ago, I would have ordered you some and stuck them in the post.

https://www.kingsseeds.com/Products/Wild-Flowers/Primrose

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