About
This evergreen perennial forms a compact rosette and features oval, serrated leaves in a light green hue. From late winter to early spring, it produces fragrant pink blooms that showcase a yellow center.
About the genus
Primula are perennial plants, either herbaceous or semi-evergreen, characterized by a basal rosette of simple leaves. Their flowers, which can be solitary or grouped in umbels or whorls, are typically salver-shaped or bell-shaped and are borne on upright stems.
Growing conditions
- Sunlight
- Partial shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Clay, Loam, Sand
- Soil pH
- Acid, Neutral
- Soil moisture
- Moist but well-drained
- Aspect
- East-facing, North-facing, West-facing
- Exposure
- Exposed, Sheltered
- UK hardiness
- H5
Plant details
- Plant type
- Conservatory Greenhouse, Alpine Rockery, Herbaceous Perennial
- Habit
- Clump forming
- Foliage
- Evergreen
- Height
- 0.1-0.5 metres
- Spread
- 0-0.1 metre
- Time to full height
- 2-5 years
- Suggested uses
- Cottage and informal garden, Patio and container plants, Rock garden
- Fragrance
- Flower
Care notes
- Cultivation
- Grow in partial shade in moderately fertile, moist but well-drained, humus-rich soil. May also be grown in an alpine house or greenhouse/conservatory using a specialist alpine plant compost based on loam with added lime. Avoid wetting the foliage
- Pruning
- No pruning required
- Propagation
- Propagate by seed when ripe, division or by separating and rooting offsets in autumn or early spring
- Pest resistance
- May be susceptible to aphids, glasshouse red spider mite, slugs, leafhoppers and vine weevils
- Disease resistance
- May be susceptible to a virus, primula brown core and grey moulds