Sweetie

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 [...]

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.

Flat blooming, cherry blossom petalled pin.  Pure white flowers, with the faintest rose flush in the very centre.  Very floribund.  Beautiful. This cultivar was collected by Mary Robinson of Martin Nest Nurseries, through swapping cultivars from her national collection of Primula auricula with a nursery in Japan.  Unfortunately we do not know which one. The [...]

Ume blooming, cherry blossom petalled pin.  White petals, with pink suffusion avoiding the veins, particularly towards the edges of the petals.  Deep pink reverse. Raised by Alan Bloom. A reliable and attractive sakurasu cultivar.