Primula marginata
Margined primrose
- Height × spread
- 0.12m × 0.12m
- Position
- Tolerates full sun, likes part shade
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Flowers
- Spring
Availability
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About this plant
This is a beautiful plant that is also known for many fine cultivars. Its has beautiful, primrose, flowers; blue, violet, pink or even white. The flowers are held in umbels on a short stem above the foliage. They are the classic, open-faced, primroses, a paler rim at the heart of each bloom before the black pin centre. The foliage is distinctive having leathery leaves. They are covered with farina when young and therefore appear, at first, to be silvery-green. It flowers during early summer and is commonly seen in the cold greenhouse but is equally happy grown in gravel or crevices in the rock garden. It enjoys lime. The plant grows from a rhizome which may hoist itself out of the ground so the plant is perched as though atop a stem. This reaches around 12cm (4.5in) height with equivalent spread.
- Flower colour
- Blue, Pink
- Foliage colour
- Green
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- No
- Shape
- Cone
- Height
- 0.12m
- Spread
- 0.12m
- Season of interest
- Spring
- Flowers in
- Spring
- Evergreen
- Evergreen
- Garden style
- Shady court, Rock garden
- Sun or shade
- Tolerates full sun, likes part shade
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- Alkaline
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Hazards
- No
- Pet safe
- Yes – listed in our pet-safe plants
AutumnNow
Autumn · Planting
Remove offsets to create new plants
Offsets are small plants or shoots that develop around the parent plant. They should have developed a root system of their own before they are detached. They can be planted directly, or grown in pots if so small they could be 'lost' in the garden.
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water to keep the soil moist
For best results, this plant needs soil that is always moist. Water deeply and regularly as soon as soil appears dry. Even for established plants in the ground, a dry week can cause problems with some soils. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather. Or install an automatic irrigation system which will do the hard work for you, even when you are away on holiday.
Without regular watering some plants never fully regain their beauty.
Planting & general
Compost · Planting
Multi-purpose compost
Use a good quality peat-free multi-purpose compost when growing in pots and containers.
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