Primula vulgaris
primrose
Our native primrose is held in deep affection, partly because it's one of the first spring flowers. From early March...
The simple pale-lemon primrose - literally the prima rosa or first flower - lifts early spring and pleases the bees
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Rosettes shine against the bare soil, whether it’s verbascums pulmonarias, orprimroses. Given a tidy in the autumn they will make this time of year look fresher. Pulmonarias will have plenty of time to settle in if planted in the autumn, and the apple-
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