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Jam Lady

Joined: 28 Dec 2006
Posts: 2593
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 16 3:02 am Post subject: Wanted - Primrose Seed
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: 15465
Location: Today I are mostly being in Yorkshire.

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 16 8:29 am Post subject:
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

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 16 9:08 am Post subject:
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: 2593
Location: New Jersey, USA

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 16 3:08 pm Post subject:

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

Posted: Tue Mar 08, 16 5:47 pm Post subject:
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: 16257

Posted: Wed Mar 09, 16 7:45 am Post subject:
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

Posted: Fri Mar 11, 16 2:34 pm Post subject:
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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