By: Alan Creach
As winter is beginning to lose its grip, people have begun looking for ways to brighten up their yards and window sills. Primroses have been the plant of choice during the cold days of February and March. With their bright yellows, brilliant reds, and all the other vibrant colors, Primroses provide the widest color range of available flowers during the late winter and early spring.
Inexpensive: (on sale now at The Plant Farm for $0.99 each)
Their relatively low cost make it very affordable to build nice pots, planters and arrangements without breaking the bank.
Easy to Grow:
Primroses are very easy to grow and can provide color for weeks to come if they are placed in the right conditions. During this time of the year most people treat primroses as a house plant and place them on the window sill in a brightly lit exposure. This works really well as long as the area is a little cool.
Later as the weather moderates you can take those same primroses and plant them in planters and pots to cheer up the porch, put them in the garden when the freezing weather is nearly past.
Cool Weather Lovers:
One thing to remember, Primroses are lovers of cool temperatures so don’t place them in an area where there is a lot of heat. By the time consumers have seen primroses in the store they have gone through 20 weeks of growing, this is through a wide range of temperatures. During the final days of finishing, the growers have hardened and cooled the crop down to a temperature of 45 degree days and 35 degree nights. Primroses can tolerate some freezing, but since their leaves are so thin there may be some visible damage if the temperatures fall very far below 28 degrees.
All in all this is a very easy plant for the average gardener to grow and brings a welcome splash of color when we need it the most. You should try a few!
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