The official word runs thus: *puts on plummy BBC accent* "Horticultural Group Auricula section primulas are evergreen perennials with leathery, often farinose foliage and simple umbels of salver-shaped flowers which are usually pink, purple or yellow". So, what's an Auricula, then? It's a type of primrose. All this lot started from just one of each colour. Here are some of my current spares, in the three colours of gold, pale lilac and deep purple. Of encouragement (errr, I sell the plants, the words of encouragement They are easy to propagate, which means that I can sell off the spares, along with words I have a lot of Auricula myself, in just three colours: none of them are the super-fancy ones, in fact only the yellow/gold ones have any degree of "meal" on the leaves, and even they don't have much: which means that these guys live in my cold, east-facing front yard outdoors, all year round, with no problems at all. They're actually very, very easy to grow, if you start with straightforward, fully hardy ones. How they must be protected from the sun, the rain, the wind, etc etc.Īll of this - the display stands, the hand-made pots, the "ooh, fussy about rain" - can give the impression that they are not something which the average garden owner can do. And here's another, this time a really pretty one, with a decorative scalloped roof, and bars to prevent accidental fall-out.Īs you can see, part of the display style is to have only one plant per pot, and apparently, it is considered de rigueur (pretentious phrase meaning "the correct/stylish thing to do) to use only hand-made terracotta pots, not the modern machine-made ones.Īlso, if you do any research on them, you'll find a lot of scary detailĪbout how they have to be kept under cover to avoid spoiling the "meal",
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