lost love rekindled

"Oh, no you didn't!"  "Yes, I did."  "No, you didn't???"  "Yes I did."  "You did???"  "Yes, I did."  Couldn't help myself.  I placed another seed order.  BUT I'm blaming it on Cottage Living Magazine.  Does that help??!!!  You see, I finally had time to flip thru the March issue the other night and there was an article, stay with me here, called "Along the Primrose Path."  Pictured in the article were my favorite primroses of all time, "cowslips" (Primula Veris).  gasp, sigh, lust.  I had these once upon a time.  I started them from seed. Only three seeds, out of the entire packet, germinated.  Boy did I ever baby that trio of seedlings.  Two years later, they paid me back by blooming spectacularly.  Then, regretfully, I had to relocate.  But I prized them so much, I transplanted all three into my mother's garden (in hopes of someday being reunited).  Has that ever happened?  Not on your life.  I think anyone who grows them falls desperately in love with them, my mother now included in that category.  I never see them for sale anywhere.  It perplexes me??  They were hardy, sturdy tho diminutive plants.  Holding their own thru howling wind and brutal Wyoming winters.  This photo doesn't do them justice.  It was taken with my old "point & shoot" camera.  If you have serious patience, I'll share a better one with you in about two years.  Now you understand why I did it???!!!!      

Comments

[Elaine]

I checked today and your "old plants" are not up yet, but they come early! They still bloom every year and I think of how you babied them and hated to leave them, even in my garden.
But I love them! MOM

[Connie]

Hi - stopping by from Blotanical.

Those are lovely primroses! I have been eying them for a couple years now, will have to get serious about starting some next year. :-)

[Amy]

I've always loved primroses - I can never resisit buying them when they show up in the grocery stores here in Jan/Feb. For some reason, I never thought of trying to grow them in my own garden! I wonder if I can find any here, or if they'll grow in my area.

[Kathleen]

Thanks for all the comments on my favorite primroses. They are very easy to grow (once germinated!!) and hardy to zone 3 or 4? I'll have to double check. Good luck if you decide to give them a try.