{"id":15353,"date":"2013-10-15T03:29:47","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T10:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=15353"},"modified":"2013-10-12T09:05:04","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T16:05:04","slug":"primula-allionii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/primulas\/primula-allionii\/","title":{"rendered":"Tips and Pics of Primula allionii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Primula <em>allionii<\/em> are easier to grow in pots than open ground but they repay a bit of effort. In an alpine house they can live for over 25 years providing many blooms in that time.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6981606607\/\" title=\"Primula allionii by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7197\/6981606607_54a0db0ee4.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Primula allionii\"><\/a><br \/>\nPrimula <em>allionii<\/em> have been cultivated for over 100 years and there are many forms some being more vigorous than others.<br \/>\nThey are endemic to the French and Italian maritime Alps.<br \/>\nI have just bought a plant from the local AGS society Primuls allionii Anna Griffith.<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6835474936\/\" title=\"Primula Lismore Yellow by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7068\/6835474936_290c8a29cd.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Primula Lismore Yellow\"><\/a><br \/>\nPrimula <em>allionii<\/em> cross with at least 7 other primula species including auricula which produced the Lismore Yellow above. Most of these hybrids are compact plants but vary in size of flower.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/6835477106\/\" title=\"Primula allionii Pink Aire by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7208\/6835477106_95d9a1707f.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Primula allionii Pink Aire\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Primula <em>allionii<\/em> Cultivation Tips<\/strong><br \/>\nPot in John Innes no2 with 25% added grit or sand.<br \/>\nTop dress with a layer of chippings or fine grit.<br \/>\nWater from below to keep leaves and stems as dry as possible.<br \/>\nLight shade is best in summer from April- September.<br \/>\nDamaged leaves and dead flowers can be removed with a slight sideways pull.<br \/>\nPot on young plants each year and older plants when the roots reach the pot side.<br \/>\nCuttings taken in summer will root in damp sand or mixed with peat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8656996161\/\" title=\"Primulas 159 by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8119\/8656996161_dee890ff99.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"Primulas 159\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Growing Primula <em>allionii<\/em> Outdoors<\/strong><br \/>\nPlants must be protected from the wet.<br \/>\nA crevice garden or overhang may be suitable, as is some tufa protection (shown above).<br \/>\nA northerly aspect helps prevents excessive drying out.<br \/>\nIf necessary try winter protection from a sheet of glass. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8656964391\/\" title=\"protection by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8125\/8656964391_b70d047e41.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" alt=\"protection\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One picture tells a thousand words with this grey-green,  toothless leaved photo of Viscountess Byng  from RHS alpine collection displays.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/8656989609\/\" title=\"Primula allionii by brianpettinger, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm9.staticflickr.com\/8116\/8656989609_d47475c2d9.jpg\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" alt=\"Primula allionii\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Primula allionii are easier to grow in pots than open ground but they repay a bit of effort. In an alpine house they can live for over 25 years providing many blooms in that time. Primula allionii have been cultivated for over 100 years and there are many forms some being more vigorous than others. They are endemic to the French and Italian maritime Alps. I have just bought a plant from the local AGS society Primuls allionii Anna Griffith.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-primulas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15353\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}