Owl's Acre Primulas

Speciality Primula Seed

Introduction

We are proud to be able to offer seeds of the following choice strains of Primula sourced directly from specialist breeders. A packet of approximately 25 seeds should yield 20 good plants.

NEW for 2011 Seed of the recently developed Oak Leaf Primulas is now available. Also Jackanapes Sylvan™ Mix.

How to grow Primulas and Polyanthus

For instructions on how to grow primulas from seed, please refer to our Primula Cultivation page.

Jackanapes Primulas - Sylvan™ Series

This totally new and exclusive development in Primula, available only through Owl's Acre Speciality Seeds, is a uniform seed strain of the traditional Jackanapes form of Primula x polyantha. In this flower form both floral and leafy tissue are combined in the calyx. The tips of the calyx are leafy and the lower parts petaloid.
F1 Jackanapes seed is now available in 5 colours and as a mix.

F1 Jackanapes Primulas

YOU AND ME™ Hose-in-Hose Primulas

This relatively recent development in polyanthus (Primula x polyantha) is still not widely available as seed or plants despite being introduced into the UK in March 2003. ‘YOU and ME’ is the world's first uniform seed raised selection of the Hose-in-Hose flower form. (The sepals of the flower are converted into petaloid tissue, giving the impression of one flower being held inside the other). The name Hose-in-Hose derives from the Elizabethan gentleman's fashion of wearing their stockings (or hose) one inside the other with the outer turned down. The ‘YOU and ME’ polyanthus was developed in the Czech Republic by Otka Plavcova, using lines sourced from Jared Sinclair at Barnhaven primroses in the late 1980's. The plants are extremely frost hardy and produce masses of flowers atop the 12-15cm long scapes. The modified sepals give the impression of more colour in the garden. ‘YOU and ME’ is available as eight separate colours: White, Cream, Red Laced, Rose, Blue, Yellow, Maroon Laced and Apricot as well as a mix of all the colours.

You and Me Polyanthus

Oakleaf Primulas

An exciting new development in hardy primulas. Discovered in 1999 by Dr Richard Brumpton, and first exhibited to the public by Dr Margaret Webster on the 21^st April 2001 at the Saltford Primula Show, Oak Leaf Primulas are little known in Europe, and virtually unknown in the rest of the world.

Oakleaf Primulas

Gold Laced Hose-in-Hose Primulas

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century the Hose-in-Hose form of the Gold Laced Primula was very highly prized indeed. The well known Gold Lace selection was a popular florist flower in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century and the Hose-in-Hose form was looked upon as a specialist development from the best normal flowered types. Seed raised strains have been all but forgotten but thanks to the work of the National Collection Holder, Dr Margaret Webster, Gold Laced Hose-in-Hose seed is available once more through Owl's Acre. Please note that this selection is not yet fully true breeding and will produce 75% Hose-in-Hose seedlings with the remaining 25% being the normal single flowered type.

Gold Laced Hose-in-Hose Polyanthus

Gold and Silver Laced Polyanthus

Good quality seed of the normal Gold and Silver Laced Polyanthus is also hard to come by and seed of both selections is offered here to provide an opportunity for customers to obtain seed from show standard selections. Although Silver Laced types have not been traditionally used on the show bench plants are still very attractive and certainly worth growing.

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