The Primrose is one of our most familiar and attractive native wild flowers. This low carpeting perennial has pale yellow flowers with a deep yellow centers which are in bloom from March to May with the occasional flower showing much earlier in the year.
Habitat Information
Primrose is a plant of cool, shaded locations and is found not only in woodlands, with which it is normally associated, but also hedgerows, north facing banks and mountain and coastal cliffs. It prefers dampish sites unusually on heavy clay soils.
Sowing the seeds
Tolerates
most soils, prefers partial shade, Sowing time throughout the year, with best results sowing March/April and May to July. Prepare the soil by lightly scarifying to create a shallow
broken surface. Sprinkle evenly the seeds lightly rake into your
prepared soil.
Or
Sow in Autumn, in a tray place in cold frame over Winter to germinate
Growing Information
Primrose seed requires a period of chilling to break dormancy. It therefore needs to be sown in late summer or autumn. Germination will take place the following spring. On average the first flowers appear about twenty months after germination.
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