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A small hybrid Primula that I bought from Aberconwy Nursery in 2015. Their label says: "Slow growing hybrid with crenate leaves. Large, freely produced flowers are deep reddish mauve/pink with a white eye. 5cm. Excellent for scree, trough or alpine house." A Certificate of Merit was given when shown to the Alpine Garden Society by Paul Rosenheim. In the write-up, he says: "The hybrid of P. hirsuta and P. viscosa holds, as a rule, a middle place between its parents and is fertile. But there are crosses to be found which in some cases are nearer to P. hirsuta, while in others they approach viscosa. In the Windrush variety, which was raised from seed, the primary hybrid seems to have crossed again with one of its parents, namely, P. viscosa. The plant exhibited has never set seed, although it has flowered annually for the past twelve years. The flowers are of good size, very freely produced, and of a delicate shade of rose tinted with mauve. P. Berninae occurs naturally in the Heutal, Switzerland.-ED. In a note in 1940 an anonymous contributer (probably the editor, Vera Higgins) adds: "Primula x Berninae is a natural hybrid between P. hirsuta and P. viscosa, and the variety illustrated is an especially fine form selected by the late Mr. Paul Rosenheim in the Engadine and named after his garden Windrush;" |
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