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A large flowered pure white seedling selected by Ken Wooster. I got it from Parham Bungalow Plants. It has grown slowly and flowered. I think it
would be more vigorous if I fed it more regularly but it is also possible that it would grow overly lush
and then drop dead. At present I am taking it slowly and carefully. In the Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Society (2004), Dr A. J. Marcham gives the desription: "'Eureka'(a) [K.R.Wooster}. Trumpet shaped, solid white thrum-eyed flowers, overlapping petals. Very resistant to damp conditions. Mid-season, well-presented. vigorous, easy, perhaps the best white P. allionii. Robert Rolfe writes in the Bulletin of the Alpine Garden Garden Soiciety: Another cult plant, Primula allionii, continues to yield distinctive clones after nearly a century in cultivation. 'Eureka' is a Ken Wooster seedling with very large, pure white flowers from his 'size matters' period of breeding: but don't flinch, these were firm and wafer-thin with a crystalline purity, rather than overweighted and tending to reflex and claw, as is the penalty with some of the largest-bloomed selections. Its clonal name was applied by Kath Dryden, who rescued the ailing Wooster collection after the owners death, and came down one March morning to see what was in bloom, whereupon she had an Archimedean moment and cried "Eureka!" Dr A. J. Marcham mentioned in a note on P. allionii in the Bulletin: "When, in 1984, Ken crossed 'Snowflake' with 'Serenity' (384/56), eight of the resulting nine seedlings flowered white or cream and he considered all of them good enough to grow on. Luckily these seedlings have been preserved and are now in the expert hands of Kath Dryden." It would be nice to think that 'Eureka' was one of those seedlings but a firm link has not been established. (as far as I know). |
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