For the best flowers, give a low dose of tomato feed. Try to remove dead leaves which fall on your plants. It also seems to deter slugs and the dreaded vine weevil. If your soil is heavy, add some small gravel and a gravel mulch around the plant will help to avoid rot if the winter is wet. Common name: Primula auricula, scientific name: Primula auricula, Aka: Auricula or Bear's. Auriculas growing in an old ceramic sink with saxifraga. The plant geneticist Sir Rowland Biffen (18741949), who is best remembered for his work on the improvement of English wheat varieties.Product dimensions: 5.51(w) x 8.50(h) x 0. It has gray-green foliage and bright yellow flowers. The number of petals is six or more, and the throat of the corolla is yellow. Primula auricula, the garden auricula, is an easy to grow perennial in containers or in the open garden. The original species is yellow, but many garden varieties have been bred with red, purple, and other flower colors. Probably introduced to England by refugees from the continent in the late sixteenth century, the auricula, though delicate-looking, is extremely hardy, can be grown in pots, and hybridizes freely, and so it was an ideal plant for competitive growers, especially in the north of England, who in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries vied with each other to breed ever more spectacular varieties, while adhering to strict guidelines on form and proportion. The flower stalks grow and bloom from spring to early summer.
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This short work on the auricula, published posthumously in 1951, contains a full botanical account of the species, but also a social history of this most popular of 'florist's flowers'. Loved by the Victorians for their unusual colours and floury centres, they built Auricula.
The plant geneticist Sir Rowland Biffen (1874–1949), who is best remembered for his work on the improvement of English wheat varieties using Mendelian principles, was also a keen botanist and gardener. A 1/12th or 1 scale paper flower kit to make 3 Auriculas.
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