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Spring 2021 is now moving to summer Spring turns to summer in North Devon What an unusual spring we have had. The Primula sieboldii really appreciated the mild start to the season and were in full flower from late March through to the end of May, when we had to cut the flowers off our […]
Sep
Most of our epimediums and ferns are temporarily out-of-stock for now. This is the time for us to split and prepare our plants for next season. Our collections will be available again later in autumn, once they have rooted. The Hakone Grasses and Primula sieboldii lists will be addressed soon as well. We will update […]
The EU Directive PHR – (EU) 2016/2031 came into force in mid-December 2019. This is aimed at improving the bio-security over the hygiene and health of plant materials sold across Europe. Our Plant Passport is designed to create traceability of the origins of the plants sold via our internet sales. The plants that we sell […]
Jun
The time has come to start propogating our Epimediums for next year, so we have unfortunately had to close our availability list for now. After a successful spring, the range of available plants was limited anyway. We propagate our own plants, apart from those that are protected by Plant Breeders Rights. As a result, numbers […]
Jul
Priorities for our website update We have many reasons for maintaining our website. The main ones are: to build a following for our on-line sales business to show off our national collection of Primula sieboldii to showcase our other key collections of garden-worthy Epimediums and ferns to provide good quality photographs of our plants Selling […]
It can be difficult to remember that this season started with hard late snows and bitter winds in March. The wind caused much damage to our emerging plants; and our exhibit at RHS Cardiff in April was short on Primula sieboldii and Epimedium. Our displays at both Malvern and Chelsea narrowly missed gold, but the […]
We have just received our order of special plants from Japan. This includes 15 new Primula sieboldii, including 11 doubles. Can’t wait to see them flower. There is also a new Epimedium and (I have no idea how these slipped in) an Asarum, an Arisaema and a Trillium. Anyone would think we run a nursery […]
Feb
2018 sees another guest page added to the Penny’s Primulas website. Not only does the website include our National Collection of Primula sieboldii it now hosts both Epimediums and a modest collection of Ferns. Both of the latter plant groups are regularly used as part of our Primula sieboldii displays at the RHS shows at Cardiff, Malvern and Chelsea.
We are building up to 2018 and have (belatedly – sorry) published our availability list from our Primula sieboldii and Epimedium collections. We are currently updating other areas of our web-site; and hope to introduce our collection of young ferns for sale during January 2018. Note that we have re-introduced our introductory offer of 3 […]
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