Martin Nest Blue

Flat blooming, cherry blossom petalled thrum.  Pale pink flowers, with pale pink reverse.  Tends to be one of the later and profuse flowering Primula sieboldii cultivars.  We do not know the origins of this cultivar, which we obtained in 2007.

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 [...]

Small flowered, deep pink with white spots at the centre.  Narrow, notched flat snowflake petals. Sourced from Japan, the name translates as “Red Dragonfly”.  A very attractive Sakurasu which dates from the late 1800s.

Wave blooming, overlap petalled thrum.  Blue shaded white flowers with dark blue reverse.  Tends to be lower growing with tight flower heads.  Raised by Julian Sutton in Devon and named after the Dartmoor river.  A very attractive, semi-compact Primula sieboldii cultivar.