Dionysia aretioides
Sky primrose
Also known as Dionysia demawendica
- Height × spread
- 0.06m × 0.5m
- Position
- Part shade
- Hardiness
- Average winter to - 10C (RHS H4)
- Flowers
- Winter, Spring
Availability
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About this plant
This is a cushion plant composed of little long leaved rosettes of grey green leaves with a fine hairy surface and a fattened end giving them somewhat of a spoon shape (spathulate). The flowers dot the surface of the plant in late winter or early spring. These are bright yellow, five petalled, and they come from a long slender tube. Grow this in tufa or on poor limey soil that is very well drained. It does best in light shade and with protection from winter wet. The plant stands around 6cm (2in) high and will eventually spread to make a lax clump up to 50cm (20in) in diameter.
- Flower colour
- Yellow
- Foliage colour
- Green, Grey
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Dome
- Height
- 0.06m
- Spread
- 0.5m
- Season of interest
- Spring
- Flowers in
- Winter, Spring
- Evergreen
- Evergreen
- Sun or shade
- Likes part shade, likes light shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Gravelly soil, Loam (normal), Poor soil, Sandy soil
- Soil pH
- Alkaline, Neutral
- Drainage
- Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Average winter to - 10C (RHS H4)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water regularly during growth
Water regularly while in growth.
Adopt a regime that means the plants are thoroughly watered every week so that they do not become dessicated. In hot weather watering may need to be more frequent, but less often in cool or moist conditions.
Winter
Winter · Outdoors
Water sparingly during dormancy
In its dormant period give very little water, keeping the soil barely moist. Dormancy is likely to be during the winter and the plant recommences growth in early to mid spring.
When a plant enters dormancy the leaves fade, go yellow and then brown. Eventually the whole plant may 'disappear' or unadorned stems may remain.