Blog - Penny's Primulas

Primula sieboldii, epimediums, ferns and hakonechloa grasses

6th June 2021

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 [...]

Plant availability will be limited whilst we propagate and repot for 2021

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 [...]

18
Sep

Plant Passports to accompany all internet sales

29th December 2019

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 [...]

Epimedium list closed until winter 2019

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 [...]

17
Jun

We are updating our website

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 [...]

26
Jul

Surviving summer 2018

26th July 2018

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 [...]

New Primula sieboldii cultivars in from Japan

17th March 2018

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 [...]

Penny's Primulas at RHS Malvern Spring Flower Show

Epimediums and Ferns to join Primula sieboldii

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 [...]

26
Feb

Primula sieboldii and Epimedium lists of availability now updated.

31st December 2017

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 [...]

Our shop is temporarily closed while we prepare for next year

19th August 2017

We have had to close our on-line shop so that we can focus our work on getting our primula and epimedium collections re-planted for next year. We hope to re-open [...]

New Primula sieboldii cultivars for Staddon Farm Nurseries

30th March 2017

Having promised ourselves not to take on many more Primula sieboldii cultivars we have just received an order for 47!!! The opportunity arose and could we say no?! Quite excited at [...]

Primula sieboldii April 2016

Spring at last at Staddon Farm Nurseries. Primula sieboldii are waking up and beginning to flower just in time for our exhibit at RHS Cardiff show (15th – 17th April). [...]

06
Apr

New Website Addition – The Shop

We are proud to announce that we have made shopping on our website much easier! Previously our ordering system required you to remember the name of the plant you wished [...]

30
Dec