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[PRIMROSES] Introduction of Hubert Agback

Hello all,

I  am living and gardening in Uppsala, Sweden. The university town of
Uppsala is located about  60 kilometres (40 miles)  north of Stockholm, the
capital of Sweden. Uppsala is the place where the famous botanist Linnaeus
once lived and worked.
We have moderately hard winters with normally -25C min temp and a rather
low rainfall, about 500 mm per year.

My main gardening interest since late seventies is alpine gardening in
general. Special interests have been (and still are) the Campanulaceae
family and more recently the Primulaceae family, especially Androsace and
Primula.

I am currently trying to expand my botanical and gardening knowledge of
Primula, more particularly growing wild species from seed. Any Primula
growable in the open garden is a valid subject matter for me. The opening
up of China for collection of endemic Primulas greatly adds to the
excitement of obtaining species previously little known in cultivation.

Of course this interest will led to many failures as newly introduced
species often proves difficult in cultivation, especially in the rather
inhospitable climate (for many asiatic Primulas)  we have in the Uppsala
region. I am trying to find cultivation methods which will increase the
suiatibility to Primula growing.

By joining this list I hope to meet people with similar interests and
discuss successes and failures in cultivation.. This will potentially
increase the probability of succesful cultivation of difficult plants.

The subject matter of this list is Primroses, which I interpret in the
broad sense, meaning just any aspect of Primula cultivation.
I have presently only very  limited interest for the cultivation of highly
specialised subjects as primroses in the sense of Primula vulgaris
cultivars, and show auriculas derived from P. auricula x P. hirsuta.
An exception is P. allionii cultivars which I have tried recently.
Unfortunately the availability of P. allionii cultivars in Sweden is
practically nil.

Hubert Agback
Uppsala Sweden
Hubert.Agback@mailbox.swipnet.se
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