Pink Primrose, the perfect plant for a sloping flower bed
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- Опубліковано 6 вер 2024
- The pink Primrose takes very little care, it's perennial, tons of blooms, and low water required. It grows well on banks and sloping areas that are traditionally hard to establish plants on.
Thank you! I'm looking for a filler for next to the road outside of the fence. You've given me great info 😊
You’re very welcome! Good luck
best flower. they are practically bioluminescent. they glow and smell nice. a truly underrated flower.
I like how they spread and fill in places where other stuff won’t grow as well
They look awesome and very beneficial, also great erosion control. Thanks for the share. 👍🏻
Yes many benefits, an all around winner
👍Great video! Thank you! I love Primroses, especially pink! ❤
Thank you. Much appreciated
Dear friend Have a great day. Beautiful Pink Primrose flowers blooms. Really perfect garden arrangement like 2 🌸😍👌💖👍
Thanks it really is a nice flower to grow
Our winters are cold the yellow one is fine with it
I find it grows well with bulbs like spring ones to cover in where they left off and grow well beside iris or lily well too
Absolutely mine is growing right next to a patch of iris
I planted two small pots of these in a flower bed last year, not realizing they’d spread. My entire garden bed is full of them this year! They look beautiful, but completely unintended and definitely squeezing out some of the other plants I planted. Not really sure what I’m going to do! I definitely love the cottage garden feel, which now that these have started covering everywhere, it feels even more like, but I may have to move some other plants I’d I decide to leave all these. I’m kind of wondering what next year will look like if I leave them!
Yes the area I planted them nothing else would grow and I wanted it to fill in, which it did, it sounds like you have a good problem tho, you can dig them up and give some away or find a new area to let them spread into
Just pull the ones you don’t want-super easy. I planted them among the roses and of there are too many or too close, I just pull a few.
no tap root so very easy to pull in spots you don't want them, but so pretty
i love these. had a lot of trouble getting them to grow from divisions. i think maybe oenethera like very good drainage. the yellow ones came up in a pile of fine sand with no extra water, in west texas about 24" of rain a year. there are white ones of this same plant.
Do they go dormant or turn brown it the heat of your summers? Mine are flush in the spring. Kinda die back then grow again in fall
I love those!
Great for bees and they smell great as well
I LOVE NATURE
It’s amazing for sure!
Love these! Great video!
Thank you!!
Watch out! This stuff can take over your garden and the blooms don't even last all that long.
That’s why I plant it on a steep slope where nothing else will grow as a groundcover
Gorgeous!!
Thank you
Wow amazing 😍
Thank you. Much appreciated
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener 🌸🌸🌸
We have yellow its beautiful great plants you don't have to fuss with
I have some yellow as well but the pink has taken over so I guess it won
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener lol good to know
they are beautiful, I know they are easy to pull out bc no tap root, but would they overpower rose bushes? I think they would look lovely as groundcover
Mine don’t they just act as a ground cover
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener thx so much for response, Dave!
they are so beautiful on your slope, magickal ...did a little checking and they are great for eco system
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Hi! These are so pretty! After watching your video, I went out and bought some seeds and finally planted them out in my garden. They are spreading and growing so fast! But I was wondering if they will bloom for me all year round. I live in Hawaii. It's always warm and 🌞 . I hope they'll stay in bloom all year round. 🤞 Oh. Does it really take a year of growing before they bloom?? Can't wait to see them bloom!!!!
I'm so excited you liked the video enough to buy seeds. In in zone 6/7 and they put out a spring flush of flowers and get kinda dry in the summer and then perk up in the fall with the occasional bloom. So I really don't know how they will do in your tropical setting. Keep me posted because that will be a great experiment. And your growing season is long enough to get blooms the first year.. best of luck
They thrive in hot desert climate and what I like about these flowers, they kill bermuda grass as it is spreading.
Yes they do tend to smother out competition. Do they dry out or go dormant in a desert climate?
No. They multiply and tolerate drought.
Great news that they outcompete Bermuda grass.
What is that height you have at most? Like 16inches? some parts seem even taller maybe. Tons of sites say 6-12 inches but that seems pretty wishful, everything seems to grow taller when you let it.
Mine never really gets more than 6-8. It’s in full sun. Maybe if it’s in more shade it will get leggy? It works well for me as a ground cover on my bank.
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener really? seems taller in your video. alright I'll let it take over my lawn then.. guess I can always make some 8 inch tall mower lol
@gg-gn3re that would look pretty cool
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener Yea I'll show you in .. idk how many years LOL
Thank you 🎉 How do you contain it when planting as a ground cover?
You can always just pull them up and move them or use a border around them. I let mine grow wild to cover up a steep bank where nothing else will do well on. It may be better for a container or a place you don’t mind it spreading?
Does it bloom all summer?
Late April til June for me before it gets too hot and dried out. If you have an area which stays more moist and not as exposed it may bloom longer.
thank you.@@DaveTheHillsideGardener
Where do I buy it? You said cutting,can you buy seeds? Online? How to start???
I started with just a few transplants from my grandmas garden and it has spread to cover the area. Seeds are easy to find and start but I would recommend buying a few starter plants and they can spread and fill in the area. Hope that helps.
Dave, I just about swooned when I saw your primroses :-) I've been doing something wrong with mine and cannot get them to grow! I just want to bawl when I hear people commenting on how vigorous they spread! I am in 6b, I realize I don't need to water them much, or fertilize, and that I need to keep them in full sun. I figure my mistake must be what I'm growing them in. They were growing in mushroom compost with some clay mixed in. So I was wondering, what soil do you have your yours growing in? Thank you!
I live in a hard red/yellow clay, so needless to say my soil is not deep. I have added horse manure and compost every spring and mulched with standard mulch. I think the key is keeping the ground covered and they just take care of the rest. Hopefully your luck improves
How much sun are they getting?
These get full sun on a south facing slope
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener hmmmm thank you. I bought a few packets of seeds but I'm not sure it will get full sun in the spot I wanted. Are they forgiving of partial shade?
Do these stay nice all summer or do they get brown and ugly after the first bloom?
They will fade out in the summer heat but in the fall they will flush out new green growth. Mine are in full hot sun so maybe if yours is in a better shady area they may not fade as much
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener Do they flower just as nice in fall?
No fall flowers
Bloom like crazy but thin out end of August. I’ve never had mine this full
Are they fragrant? I have a huge hill!
Yes they are , but not super overpowering like roses or something
Mine are growing wild on grass lol
Yea they do seem to spread which is great if that's what you're looking for
@@DaveTheHillsideGardener lol idk I thought they were weeds lol
How long do they last?
Just have the first blooms today actually and will go until it gets really hot so usually mid june
Perineal
Yes they are