Primrose
Primula vulgaris. Similar medicinal value to the cowslip, the root being dried and used in early medicine to manage gout and arthritis.
Filter By
Light requirement
Light requirement
Height range
Height range
Drought resistance
Drought resistance
Frost tolerance
Frost tolerance
Flowering time
Flowering time
There are 39 products.
A good multiplier with a understated greenish bronze colour, nice and subtle.
A pretty variety we raised a few years ago from experimental crosses, with some creative contributions from our staff for the name. Good clumping habit and a subtle colour.
Red form of Pulsatilla vulgaris, requires good drainage like other varieties, best for rock garden.
Carpeting ground cover with violet purple flowers, good amongst stones, over a wall, and in the rock garden with miniature bulbs.
Rose pink form of Viola odorata, use as ground cover in shade under trees amongst Dicentra and Hostas.
Double white form, sweetly fragrant and lovely. Easy and clumping like other forms, best used in shade as ground cover.
Soft primrose yellow flowers, a seldom seen variety with subtle colour. Plant with snowdrops and spring bulbs.
Miniature alpine yarrow for cottage garden or rock garden, long flowering and not invasive, pure white flowers. Drought and frost hardy.
The 'wood anemone' is useful as a ground cover in shade. Treat as a bulb, dry off after flowering, summer deciduous, good amongst Hosta and Helleborus. This is the traditional form with single white flowers.
Light blue form with larger flowers than the wild variety. Easy to grow and lovely in spring.
Creeping perennial, native to woodland in central and western Europe. Lovely single upward facing white flowers, forms large patches in time. Easy in the garden, lower growing than the tall 'Windflower' varieties.
'Lily of the valley'. Clump forming and easy perennial for shade or part sun, sweetly fragrant bells in spring.
Dome-shaped low-growing Euphorbia for the rockgarden or border. Dozens of lime-green flowers in spring.
A low-spreading variety with attractive grey-green leaves and pink flowers. Great under roses with Heuchera americana and Alchemilla mollis.
A wild Paeonia from the Caucasus from Ukraine to Romania with deep tomato red flowers and finely dissected foliage. This is a dwarf species which prefers fertile but drained conditions, and needs to dry off in summer after the growing period. A rare treasure.
Old fashioned shade-loving primrose with burgundy gold edged flowers. Choice and lovely.
Our own variety which we have multiplied from division, flame orange fading into chesnut brown.
A long stemmed form suitable for picking. Violet blue flowers in winter and early spring.