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Primroses The Quarterly Of The American Primrose Society Autumn 2009 Vol. 67 No. 4 American Primrose Society Autumn 2009 OFFICERS Primroses Joseph B. Philip, President Editor President’s Message 26 Spofford Road Jane Guild Primroses Worcester, MA 01607 2647 A Deville Road Victoria BC V9B 3W9 Canada JOE PHILIP (508) 736-9013 [email protected] The Quarterly of the [email protected] Editorial Committee Hello Fellow Members, American Primrose Society Alan Lawrence, Vice President Maedythe Martin Judith Sellers It is that time of year P.O. Box 37 Michael Plumb Lake Delton, WI again, when we are Volume 67 No 4 Autumn 2009 Alan Lawrence [email protected] Joan Hoeffel preparing for the Editorial Deadlines The purpose of this Society is to bring the people Michael Plumb, Secretary cold weather to settle 3604 Jolly Roger Crescent Winter issue - October 15 Spring issue - January 15 in around us. I was interested in Primula together in an organization to Pender Island, BC V0N 2M2 Summer issue - April 15 walking around the increase the general knowledge of and interest in the (250) 629-6806 Autumn issue - July 15 [email protected] yard and all of the collecting, growing, breeding, showing and using in ©American Primrose Society 2009 the landscape and garden of the genus Primula in all its Primroses (ISSN 0162-6671) is published swamp maples have Jon Kawaguchi, Treasurer forms and to serve as a clearing house for collecting and by the American Primrose, Primula and 3524 Bowman Court Auricula Society. All material printed already turned scarlet disseminating information about Primula. Alameda, CA 94502 in the quarterly, except as noted, is red and bright orange. (510) 331-3337 copyright by APS. No part may be [email protected] reproduced without the permission of APS. In Massachusetts, Manuscripts for publication are invited, these are always the Contents though there is no payment. Send articles, DIRECTORS preferably in Microsoft Word, directly to first things to start to President’s Message by Joe Philip . 3 the editor. Primula Paradise by a Ski Lodge by Lee Nelson . 5 Through 2011 . .Linda Bailey turn color. This is the 240 Silke Rd, Apt. 220 Photographs are credited and used only time when we need Primula allionii by Pam Eveleigh ����������������������������������7 Colville, WA 99114 with the permission of the photographer. Growing Primula on a Tufa Wall by Jules Fouarge �������9 (509) 684-8936 Photos submitted to the editor are preferred to start preparing our gardens for a long rest. This in 300 dpi digital format but other images Allionii by Joan Fraser. .13 [email protected] can be accepted. Any material used that has year I am going to try a small hoop house that is Free Reading - Books You Have Wished for previously appeared elsewhere is properly open on both sides for my show Auriculas. I will let Cheri Fluck credited and used with the permission of by Judith Sellers. .15 17275 Point Lena Loop Rd the original publisher and/or creator. you know how it all turns out in the spring. Saga of a Primrose Enthusiast by Dorothy G. Swift. .25 Juneau, AK 99801-8344 Membership in the Society includes a What I Think I Know About P. Vialii 503-504-4200 subscription to Primroses, seed exchange At this time, I would like to encourage fellow APS [email protected] by Michael Plumb. .28 privileges, password to the member’s only section of the APS web site (including the members to try their best to renew by the deadline Pins + Thrums . 30 Through 2010 . Rodney Barker Pictorial Dictionary) and use of the slide of November 15th. Failing that, please. please, Vintage Bits selected by Michael Plumb . .31 library. 49 Woodcliff Road renew by year end, December 31. Any issue that Membership List . 32 Newton Highlands, MA 02461 Dues for individual or household Your Chance for New Plants - the Seed Exchange . .35 [email protected] membership, domestic and Canada are: can not go out with the bulk mailing costs the $25 per calendar year Minutes . 36 Julia Haldorson, Membership $70 for three years society money. Last year there were so many late Officers of the Chapters �����������������������������������������������39 P.O. Box 210913 Overseas rates are: renewals, the amount was almost $300. On postage Auke Bay, AK 99821 $32 per calendar year New Members this Quarter . .39 [email protected] $90 for three years. alone! Our alternative is to hold your first issue Membership renewals are due November of the year, and send the January one in the bulk Marianne I. Kuchel 15 and are delinquent January 1. 1815 Blood Brook Road Submit payment to the treasurer. mailing in April. But all this would be avoided if Fairlee, VT 05045 Advertising rates per issue: your name is on the membership list for January 1, (802) 333-4835 Black and White: 2010. [email protected] Full page: $100 Credits: Photos and text reproduced with permission. Half page: $60 Mary Jo Burns 1/4 page: $30 Front Cover: APS Photo Contest Winner in the “Other Gardens” 4169 Westwood Drive 1/8 page: $15 I also encourage you to look carefully at the APS category: Becky Carls’ Dodecatheon growing on the beach in Anchorage, AK 99515 Color: seed list when it comes out on the website, and Kodiak, Alaska. (907) 248-2827 Half page: $150 order some seeds to start. The most amazing Back Cover: Tufa wall with Primula allionii from Jules Fouarge’s [email protected] Full page: $300 garden in Belgium. Back Cover: $450 things come out of those small packages. You can Contact the treasurer for details. 2 3 American Primrose Society Autumn 2009 obtain seed for plants in the APS seed Primula Paradise by a Ski Lodge: exchange that you would be unlikely to Visiting Joan Hoeffel’s Garden in the New York Wine Country find any other way. And what a sense HELP! of satisfaction when your new seedlings LEE NELSON are ready to plant out. The seed list Our Treasurer needs should be available on the website by your assistance! One thing often leads to another. My nestled in a clearing in the woods, December 10, 2009. And remember Advertising Manager needed! friend Ellen Hornig has a nursery which stood a mushroom house surrounded by that donating seed gets you first in line Do you have a few spare I visit, and she and I often discuss thousands of Primula. Primula. She once said to me, “You for ordering - see page 35 - for further hours a month to correspond Upon our arrival we got the full tour of information on the Seed Exchange. must go and visit Joan Hoeffel’s garden, this incredible garden, including a new with the vendors who it is full of Primula.” I tried to get in advertise in the Quarterly? rock garden that Joan is still working Joseph Philip touch but the phone number I had was Jon Kawaguchi, our treasurer, on, but it was the Primula that were APS President incorrect. Then in fall 2008, I issued would welcome someone to breathtaking. Many have self sown and a challenge in the APS quarterly asking hybridized among themselves and the take over the files and keep growers to tell me when they divided variety is amazing. One very wet area Marie Ann Skonberg in touch with these people. their plants. Joan was the only person to has an array of P. japonica and other For more information, email respond. Talk about serendipity! Now I candelabras. Of course, being keen had contact information. It is with great sadness that we report Jon at [email protected] plants-people we traded Primula. Joan that Marie Skonberg died peacefully I got in touch with Joan, who invited sent us home with flats full of plants in her sleep on June 28, 2009. She me to visit. “You must come when and when we got home, we sent her a was a life-long resident of Ouzinkie, the primroses are out,” she said. Just box of plants from our gardens. Alaska, and a long-time member before I was heading out to the APS of APS. For a number of years in National Show, Joan emailed to say Over lunch Joan and her husband, Don, the 1980s, she ran the APS seed I could come anytime in the next two told me how the house was built – it is exchange. A friend, Elana White, weeks. So, on a cool but sunny day in an unusual design. (More on Joan’s from Kodiak Alaska contacted us early May, my good friend and fellow house in the sidebar.) I hope to visit and sent Marie’s obituary from the Primula enthusiast, Camilla McLeod, Joan again, and possibly arrange for local Kodiak paper printed July 14th and I began our two-hour drive north members of the N.E. Chapter to make a this year. She is survived by many toward Naples, one of the pretty little visit. It is well worth the trip. relatives, including her grandson towns located at the south end of Devon James, after whom she named Canandaigua Lake in the heart a P. x Juliana primrose she raised. It is of the wine country. Notes about the house: a most unusual color; pink with some peach tones, striped and flecked with Joan had mentioned that We had our house built in 1969, here at the red. It is only one of many primroses finding the house might not be Hunt Hollow Ski Club in Naples, NY, as a she raised, for she was a very gifted easy as it was located down a “vacation home.” Only 50 minutes from hybridizer.