Primula sieboldii ‘Ue-no-ume’

A very attractive semi-compact sakurasu cultivar.  Flat to hold blooming, notched cherry blossom petalled thrum.  Pink flowers with white centre and white traced veins. The Carefree Group seedling strain was created by Barnhaven primula nursery, which is now based in France.  Our strain-cultivar was sourced from Martin Nest Nurseries when we first started out in [...]

This Primula sieboldii cultivar petal colour is a rich pink, but it “sports” heavily.  Sporting cultivars are popular in Japanese collections.  Our collection plants are predominantly pale pink sporting, with splashes of the dark pink. We were given a lesson in primula genetics at Chelsea Flower Show in 2018! Flat, cherry-blossom petals. We obtained this [...]

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 [...]

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.