Dart Rapids

Bright pink backed clear white thrum.  Grasp-blooming, slender petals forming a loose cup.  A floribund and reliable sakurasu cultivar. The name translates as “Silver Edges”.  We are told that the phonetic spellings of Gin-pukurin and Ginfukurin probably translate from the same Japanese name.  The photograph of Gin-pukurin in Mr Tsuneo Torii’s book shows that our [...]

Bright pink thrum with flat, snowflake petals.  This Primula sieboldii cultivar can ‘sport’ but our source plant tends not to.  This cultivar is a relatively recent introduction from the late twentieth century.

Blue hinted pink flower with white central suffusion. Overlapping cherry-blossom petals.  This Primula sieboldii cultivar was raised by Alan Bloom and was kindly provided to us for our national collection by his family.

Wave blooming, cherry blossom petalled pin.  White flowers with pale blue suffusion and pale blue reverse.  Like many of the ‘blue’ cultivars, this tends to flower later in the season.  We do not know the origins of this very pretty compact sakurasu cultivar, which we sourced in 2005.