Amythyst Cowichan
The Cowichans are eyeless primroses and originated spontaneously in the Canadian town of Cowichan Station. This cultivar has flowers in amythyst and violet shades, often with intricate Persian patterning at the centre.Very hardy.
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Butterscotch
This is an acaulis type in the most delicious mixture of copper, bronze, champagne, apricot and butter yellow.
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Chartreuse
This old and beautiful polyanthus cultivar is treasured for its full, lightly frilled flowers in a wonderful luminous shade of creamy lemon iced with pale lime green. it is exceptionally floriferous.The foliage is dense, healthy, dark, and a perfect foil. Vigorous. Rare. Hardy.
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Coronation Cowslip Primula veris
Developed many decades ago, these originated from crosses made with the wild cowslip. The flowers, nodding in clusters from each stem are larger, sweetly fragrant, and come in a range of soft warm colours from gold through apricot to red.
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Gilded Ginger
We had to stand back from the rush last year for this stunning Barnhaven polyanthus with its amazing rich combiation of old gold and bitter dark chocolate.It is a cross from the ancient Gold Laced primrose.
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Gold Laced
This ancient primrose was bred to exacting standards for centuries, with a large cluster of smalish flowers in velvety mahoghany brown, deepest maroon, or black, with the edge of each petal precisely edged with gold (or sometimes silver) as if hand painted, to form some of the loveliest of all the heirloom flowers. Very rare and as exquisite as a flower in a medieval tapestry. Hardy.
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Gold Laced Beeches Strain
This similar to the ancient Gold laced variety above but the posies of little flowers are a rich eep red precisely and finely giled at the edges.
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Gold laced Jack in the Green
Even rarer than the Jack in the Green is this slightly later variant which had exquisitely gold or silver filigree edged petals and the handsome frilled ruffs of large green sepals found in the Elizabethan Jack In the Green. For months after the flowers are spent the green ruffs persist looking for all the world like single green roses.
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Grand Canyon
This spectacular tall polyanthus type have been instantly popular with customers since they first flowered here. All the colours of the Grand Canyon at sunset are in these flowers from copper to bronze, brick red and rust. Divide every two years.
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Harbinger
This is an Barnhaven acaulis-type primrose with a profusion of exquisite golden centred white flowers. It is well named as a harbinger of spring.
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Harvest Yellow
We love this classic French Barnhaven perennial polyanthus with its fragrant clear golden flowers in shades of mimosa to buttercup. Sturdy, reliable, quick to multiply and so cheerful, just the thing to snap you out of late winter blues. Planted in a pool of colour, they are utterly joyful
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Hose in Hose
This is one of the oldest of all and this quaint perennial wastreasured in the Elizabethan period. Each flower has a second flower growing out of the first to form a two storied flower. The name comes from the Elizabethan habit of tucking one hose (or legging) into the other at night.This is an exquisite, vey rare and floriferous variety. Very hardy. The flowers are usually pale yellow or pink.
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Jack-In-The-Green
The Elizabethans loved quaint and unusual forms of flowers. Shakespeare, an exceptionally knowledgeable plantsman as were many Elizabethan country gentlemen wrote about this delightful variety of primrose. Each flower is backed by a curious but very pretty green ruff of much enlarged sepals around each flower which persists for months after the flower has finished, and resemble wild green roses. Very hardy. Very rare.
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Mauve Victorian Polyanthus
A gorgeous barnhaven type with mauve, lavender orchid and heliotrope with a frothing of white.
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Muted Victorian Polyanthus
This gorgeous Barnhaven type has a mauve to blue background frosted over with sepia, cream and misty grey.
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Old Rose Victorian Polyanthus
Gorgeous old-fashioned flowers which range in colour from passionate pink to delicate sugar mouse pink. Divide every second year.
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Osiered Amber
Originating from the famed Barnhaven strain of acaulis primulas which we have imported from France, this beautiful strain of primroses has a soft sweet fragrance and is in a mixture of amber, champagne, and apricot. The plants are vigorous and very floriferous. Hardy.
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P. florindae
These stunningly elegant giant perennial primulas originate from valleys in the lower Himalayas and can grow to 100 cm tall, with several whorls spice scented flowers in soft yellow, orange, copper or raspberry red up the stems. Rarely available.
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Paris 90 Polyanthus
A variety with pale cream flowers with a blue picotee edge or reverse.
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Reverie
A charming variety in butterfly and powder blues with a tiny precise star eye.
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Striped Victorian Polyanthus
Introducedmore than fifty years ago, this is the original striped polyanthus , predominantly light blue finely striped and veined with purple like Japanese iris.
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Tango
This Barnhaven variety from France brings colour to the spring garden in a fruity mixture of orange and gold.
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Vera Maud
A delicate shell pink Juliana type with a deeper pink and dark green foliage Early flowering with sturdy stalks. Has been greatly coveted by those who have seen it in flower.
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Wild English Cowslip or Paigle or Golden Drops or Fairy Bells or Fairy Cups or Milk-Maidens
Is there anything more innocent and lovely than cowslips? The original wildflower of English meadows with clusters of drooping golden flowers on slender stems, filled with soft sweet fragrance. Winter White Polyanthus This is an exqusite perennial polyanthus with snow white flowers each warmed by a golden eye, borne in clusters on a slender stem. Perfect for a White Garden.
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