PRIMULA veris (Pr)
Small
Sun
Yellow
Reasonable soil
Spring
RHS Award of Garden Merit
100% Peat Free
Description
Primula veris
Height x Spread: 15cm x 20cm
Primula veris is our Common Cowslip, we are all familiar with its dainty nodding tubular flowers which are yellow in colour and wonderfully fragrant. Perfect for a spring garden or for naturalising in an informal lawn or at the edges of woodland.
Cowslips grow happily in any reasonable, moist but free-draining soil in sun or dappled shade. It will self-seed and in time form good colonies.
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