{"id":5404,"date":"2015-01-18T03:21:42","date_gmt":"2015-01-18T10:21:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=5404"},"modified":"2015-01-18T12:28:52","modified_gmt":"2015-01-18T19:28:52","slug":"primula-kewensis-one-of-the-worlds-top-ten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/alpine-rockery\/primula-kewensis-one-of-the-worlds-top-ten\/","title":{"rendered":"Primula Kewensis One of the Worlds Top Ten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Primula Kewensis by brianpettinger, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/hortoris\/4131446496\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2676\/4131446496_38cf74afc9.jpg\" alt=\"Primula Kewensis\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the Kew Primrose, Primula Kewensis was bred from Primula verticillata and Primula floribunda around 1905. It should be high in the world&#8217;s top ten Primula varieties. It flowers yellow or lemon-yellow and has these attractive leaves when grown in the cold Alpine house.The downy powder is called meal or Farina and gives a grey-green appeal to the leaves similar to some show Auriculas. The seeds grow true and do not hybridise.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Primula by Badly Drawn Dad, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/dhedwards\/3374616179\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.staticflickr.com\/3632\/3374616179_6df0673c0f.jpg\" alt=\"Primula\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are approaching 500 species of Primulas and numerous societies who specialise in the genus. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.auriculaandprimula.org.uk\/m&amp;w.html\">National Auricula and Primrose society <\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.auriculas.org.uk\/\">Northern branch<\/a>, The American <a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanprimrosesociety.org\/\">Primula Society<\/a><br \/>\n<a title=\"Primula Kewensis to start the week by Vainsang, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/vainsang\/4044052105\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2681\/4044052105_7ca39328b0.jpg\" alt=\"Primula Kewensis to start the week\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nAs seen in the exotic green houses of the Belgian National Botanical Garden.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.awin1.com\/cread.php?awinmid=2283&amp;awinaffid=81944&amp;clickref=&amp;p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.thompson-morgan.com\/plants1\/search.html?section=all&amp;search=primula\"> More Primula seeds from Thompson &amp; Morgan<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Credits<\/strong><br \/>\nPrimula by Badly Drawn Dad CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<br \/>\nPrimula Kewensis to start the week by Vainsang CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are many great Primula, Kewensis is just one worth trying<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[188,256],"tags":[255],"class_list":["post-5404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alpine-rockery","category-primulas","tag-primula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404","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=5404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}