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Re: [PRIMROSES] Dealing With Tree Roots

And you think you have summer humidity! This is one way that whatever
Northern VA can do, Richmond can do better!  The Pacific Giants have scared
me off of large blooms. Don't know if they are other than annuals anywhere
else, but one year is all we get here. All I am trying from the list are P.
vulgaris and P. polyanthus. P. denticulata will do here, but have grown a
quantity of them from seed, so don't need anymore. All of my friends north
of here manage P. japonica beautifully. I've a dry wooded hillside as well
as summer humidity. Think maybe it likes more water than I give it. I have
to get with it and start propagating the ones I know will grow here. The
Barnhavens should do, but lost a lot of them. A friend in Alexandria grows
all sorts of garden auriculas. Mine were well established, lived thru the
winter easily, and dropped dead when they found out I expected them to make
it thru the summer here. Not a chance. I'll check with Tony Avent in
Raleigh and see what he can grow. That's worse than here.....

Nancy


>
>I have had difficulty growing primulas -- they seem to do fine through the
>winter (if planted in the fall) but the high humidity in the summer seems to
>put them down.  I have tried level of shade and other means to cool their
>"feet", but they have been like annuals here in Fairfax Station (a zone 7
area
>which proves all zones are NOT created equally.
>
>If I were to pick 10 primulas from Mary O. Robinson's book to grow in
Northern
>VA which should they be?
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