Settle the plants in the holes, backfill, and press the soil down around the stems. Primula auricula Mick is an evergreen, perennial, alpine auricula forming a rosette of light green leaves with clusters of deep brownish-red flowers adorned with warm orange petal tips and a bright golden heart. Classic name for what must be an English selection with amber tawny yellow flowers - in the US with our bright yellow squeeze bottle mustard, it would have. These “show hybrids” are best grown in pots rather than open ground, where their need for well drained soil that still remains adequately hydrated can more easily be met. Auricula 'Double Mustard' Primula Auricula, or Auricula, is a variety of the primula family that has a very colourful showy cluster of subtly fragrant flowers on a single sturdy stem arising from a basal rosette of broad 'ear-shaped' leaves (the name 'auricular' comes from the shape of the leaves). Tease each Primula auricula specimen out of its pot, and gently break the clump up to release the roots from their tight nursery pots. Often a powdering coating called “meal” dusts the flowers, leaves and stems. The species often display cheerful yellow flowers that extend on 4-6″ stems and are hardy through zone 4.īritish gardeners have made collecting and growing Primula auricula a springtime passion and, over the years, have hybridized and selected forms with larger flowers, sturdier stems, and unusual colors ranging from mustard, tan, yellow and green through red, purple and almost black, sometimes accented with white picotee edges. For more information about caring for auriculas please visit our page on Border auriculas.
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Primula auricula in its purest form is native to the alpine regions of central Europe, growing in sharply drained soil on craggy slopes, enhanced by moist mountain air. Border auriculas in different shades of mustard, orangey-yellow. And now for something completely different: Primula auricula 'Alois' from the Bavarian Gaudi series Its weird and wonderful, fragrant flowers are presented in large clusters offering shades of grey, black, white and mustard yellow Thick, waxy leaves form a low rosette. The Auricula was loved by the working man from the 17th century onwards indeed it was a plant which was almost revered. still life paintings, one of many plants in an opulent ensemble that one would never find blooming all at once in nature. Perhaps you first noticed this primrose depicted in one of those classic 17 th c.
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