Primulas In Bloom - Early Spring - April 2024

Last Spring, I took a shot on a couple of primroses at an early-in-the-season garden show.  I was pretty unfamiliar with them - hence this post titled: "Giving Primrose A Shot" from March 2023 where I figured I was lulled into a false belief that these early-blooming flowers would work in our Zone 5b (at that time, now Zone 6a) garden.

We're suckers for blue blooms and the three Primula belarina 'Blue Champion' that I bought were pretty close to blue.  I seem to have ONLY posted about the blue ones, but if you look back at the photos in this post, you can clearly see that we brought home four Primulas that day;  three blue and one white one.  

They went in and seemed to manage their first growing season without much drama.  By the very early days of 2024, I posted about seeing some of their foliage - despite the harsh Winter temps in the garden.  

Today - about 90 days since then, they're in bloom.  And they're quite nice.  Below is the 'Blue Champion' primrose (with a little bit of Kentucky Blue Grass that has managed to find its way in there amongst the foliage):

And, below is the "other one" - white blooms with orange-ish/yellow centers.  This is a different variety with more open/flat blooms and petals that stretch out from the center vs. curl-up.  This lone Primula (Primrose) is planted right in the middle of the three Anemone Lucky Charm that sit in the 'kitchen curved bed' and had a very prolific season in 2023.  

Based on how much those Anemones stretched out, I'm thinking that this lone Primrose needs to be transplanted.   Likely to somewhere closer to the front of the bed.  But, that will have to wait until AFTER it finishes its blooming for the year.