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The American Primrose Society SOCIETY FOUNDED 1B4I Primroses American Primrose Sncii'ly Autumn JHH'i Primroses The Quarterly of the American Primrose Society Volume 63 No 4 AUTUMN 2005 The purpose of this Society is to bring the people interested in Primula together in an organization to inerease the general knowledge of and interest in the collecting, growing, breeding, showing and using in the landscape and garden of the genus Primula in all its forms and to serve as a clearing house for collecting and disseminating information about Primula. Photo: John Byrne and Newfoundland/Labrador Tourism President's Message, by Ed Buyarski 5 This issue of PRIMROSES is primarily dedicated to the primula en- thusiasts who collect and grow plants on the Atlantic Canada seacoast Primula in Atlantic Canada, by Sterling Levy 7 including Labrador, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia. Above, Western Primroses in Truro, Nova Scotia, by Bernard Jackson II Brook navigates the glacier-carved fiords of Newfoundland. Plant Portrait, Primula aipicoia by Robert Tonkin 14 Primula in Newfoundland, by Todd Boland 2^ PRIMROSES • The Quarterly of the American Primrose Society Chapter Report: B.C. Chapter, by Maedythe Martin 30 Editor Editorial Committee Primula Juliana 'Kristy', by Mary Kordes 32 Matt Mattus Mil-had Plumb 26 Spofford Road Judy Sellers Worcester, MA 01607 I- (I Buvarski [email protected] About the Covers EDITORIAL Manuscripts for publication in the ADVERTISING Advertising rates per issue: full quarterly arc invited from members and other page, $100; half page. $50: quarter page, $25; Front Cover: A double Primula auricula 'Brownie'. Bred by our own Rosetta gardeners, although there is no payment. Please eigth page and minimum, $12.50. Artwork for ads Jones, and grown by Matt Mattus. include 300 dpi digital shots (to final print size) , is the responsibility of the advertiser, and art work they will either be converted to black and white. supplied on disk m Mac format is appreciated. or used in color. Photo prints on paper, transpar- Graphic art help is available at no cost for layout, encies, or slides arc also accepted. Send articles design and graphics.Contact the editor for more Postmaster Send address Primroses is published by the American Primrose, Primula and Aurieula Society, 19933 directly to the editor at mmattus(«;charter.net. Ar- inlbmation. Submit all advertising to the editor. changes to APS Trea- Cohen Dr. Juneau. AK 99801. Membership in the Society includes a subscription to ticles composed in Microsoft Word are pre- surer, Julia Haldorson, Primroses, Seed Exchange privileges, and the use of a Slide Library. Dues for individual EDITORIAL DEADLINES ferred. APS reserves the right to use submitted P.O. Box 210913. Auke or household membership in ihc American Primrose Society, domestic, and Canada arc Winter issue December 10 $25 per calendar year, $70 for three years or $350 for an individual life membership. unifies and pictures for other official APS uses. Spring issue March 10 Bay, AK 99821. Overseas rates are $32 per annum, and $90 for 3 years. Submit payment to the treasurer. Primroses, The Quarterly of the American Summer issue June 10 Membership renewals arc due November 15 and are delinquent at the first of the year. Primrose Society is created on an Apple Mac Autumn issue September 10 Periodical postage paid at G4 using primarily the page layout software PHOTO CREDITS All phutiw iirv credited and arc t«p> Juncau, Alaska. Adobe InDcsign CS and Adobe Photoshop. writed. They remain Ihc property of ihc photographer. ISSN 0162-6671 American Primrnso Socioty Autumn 2005 OFFICERS & BOARD OF DIRECTORS President Ed Buyarski ampnmsoc(«J hotmail.com P.O. Box 33077, Juneau. AK 99803-3077 Autumn President's Message (907J-789-2299 Vice President Judith Sellers [email protected] 300 Frank Youngs Road ED BUYARSKI Unadilla, NY 13849 Michael Plunih mp-9341 -rpC^iniserve.com 9341 Kinsley Crescent Richmond, BCV7AAV6 (d04)24l-0498 Greetings folks; are you finally find- Treasurer/Membership Julia Haldorson [email protected] P.O. Box 210913 ing the time to do your garden cleanup Auke Bay, AK 99821 and get a rest from the summers' activi- (907)789-5X60 ties? Are you thinking about new areas to prepare for gardens next year; doing a better job of record keeping for your DIRECTORS successes or failures; or even doing Through 2008 Linda Bailey f pli\m more timely weeding and dividing? 1720 Highway 20 East Collville,WA99114 These are all fine resolutions for the (509)684-8936 New Year. Susan Gray briarwood^ns.sympatico.ca Juneau has just gone through another RR#2 South Ohio, NS BOW 3EO green Holiday Season - this seems to Canada be coming the norm rather than white. Through 2007 Arlent* Perkins arlnprrnrsldy(«iaol.com More record high temperatures in November and December combined with 580 Perkins Rd. one week that we received over 15 inches of rain! I hope the New Year brings Montpelier, VT 05602 some moderation. I'm glad I live on a hill! Mark Dycn dyenreiscn(«Jrcn.com What can we do to help you enjoy "Primroses" more? What topics and ar- 132 Church Street Newton, MA 02158 ticles do you want to read about? How can we find and retain more members to make our local chapters and groups more interesting and inviting to others? Through 2006 Rodney Barker rodney(ix;j ustice.com We the APS Board need your input to help so please fill out our poll enclosed 49WoodclilTRoad Newton Highlands, MA 02461 with the Seed Exchange Catalog. Of course in the last Quarterly we were lucky enough to read our editor's accounts of his travels in Italy. We would certainly appreciate other travel- ogues with primroses involved. American Primrose Socicly Autumn 2005 Summer in Juncau started out strong with dry sunny weather but reverted to more normal conditions with plenty of moisture in July and later. For the first time I got pears from trees I planted 10 years ago so I'm happy I was patient enough to wait and not cut them down to make room for other plants. Primroses in Atlantic Canada They were all picked in mid September along with our apple crop before our local bears helped themselves. Just before this harvest, my wife and I along with another couple were again north of Kotzebue, Alaska for our biennial caribou hunt and incidentally, Primula seed collections. It is ironic to me to STERLING LEVY find these plants in the ditches and wetlands in town and near the airport in saline meadows when I traveled all the way to China to find other species a few years ago. Primula nutans is fairly common around Kozubue, and in silty moist areas I live and garden in Fall River Nova Scotia, a bedroom community of Hali- near a lake where we hunted were found P. anvilensis. I would truly like to fax our provincial capital. If you check a hardiness zone map of Nova Scotia see these in bloom but the prospect of enduring the clouds of mosquitoes in you will sec that Halifax is in zone 6 and also on the scacoast. We, however, June under 24 hours of daylight when they are flowering makes me hesitate. are located seven or eight miles inland away from the moderating effects of That and being 1900 miles away from Juneau also makes a difference. the ocean. It is warmer in the summer and colder in the winter (often as much Since some of the seeds I collected will be available through the seed as 10 degrees F). Most likely we are closer to zone 5. We also miss out on exchange, I would like to hear the results of some successes growing them some of the benefits of the coastal fog that helps keep the summer humidity if possible. It is possible that some of the P. nutans may be mixed with P. a bit higher. borealis as they are both said to be present around Kotzebue and may be dif- Our gardening season usually starts with the last frost in mid-May and ficult to tell apart in fruit. I also realize that the challenge of growing these to lasts until the first killing frost around Thanksgiving (Columbus Day for our flowering since they normally endure a range of temperatures from minus 60F US friends). In the past 28 years the latest spring frost has been on June 7th to plus 80F may be tough. Let me know. and the earliest was on Labor Day weekend. The winter weather is variable. There are lots more Primroses that are easier to raise than that so be sure to Sometimes we have periods of extreme cold for weeks without snow cover start growing more of them too! (lowest temperature has been -33 C) followed by a thaw. Snow eover is un- reliable. Snowstorms often turn to rain followed by a plunge in temperature. These freeze and thaw cycles, along with our cold, wet springs, can make Statement of Ownership, Management and Circulation primula growing a challenge. Plants are heaved out of the soil and are "freeze- (Required by 39 U.S.C. 36851 1. Publication lillc: Primroses. 2. Publication number: 11162-Mi71. .1. Hlingdate: I Oclober 21105. 4. Issue frequency: Quarterly. S. Num- twr nf n«i<.», published annually, four ft. AiiiM.il suh.tnptimi pn«.< V!S oil Us fiiiuidii. <i.\2 1)11 l.ireiyi 1 < nmnlctc mailing ailUres* uf known ollicc of publication: dricd" or even washed away. \IMCI ILJH h inimsc society. HO Box 210913, Alike B>$ Almki 99821, B. 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