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One of those terrible Petiolaris primulas that are as enchanting as they are difficult to grow in southern gardens. I have tried, I have failed
and I have come to accept that fact (after a measure of horticultural sulking). They like the north. Comes naturally from Nepal through Sikkim, Bhutan, Tibet and Assam in mountain forest reaching elevations of 4,700m. John Richards says: "First introduced by M. Foster to Kew in 1888 as P. petiolaris var. nana (Bot. Mag. t.7079B), but it did not persist. Reintroduced in 1936 by Ludlow and Sherriff (L&S 1167) as flown-home plants from Bhutan. This introduction still persists ('Sherriff's var.', with good meal and deep rose flowers). There were many subsequent introductions of this portable plant which often grows beside popular Nepalese trails in the 1970's, but the collection of living material in Nepal is now mostly illegal. The easiest and most persistent of the petiolarids in the garden. Only in the north of Scotland does it prove problematic as it is intolerant of severe late spring frosts." |
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