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The Quarterly of the American Primrose Society Winter 2018 Vol Primroses The Quarterly Of The American Primrose Society Winter 2018 Vol. 76 No. 1 American Primrose Society Winter 2018 OFFICERS Primroses Editor The View from Here Rhondda Porter, Acting Jane Guild President/Vice President 2546 Wentwich Road RHONDDA PLUMB Primroses 3604 Jolly Roger Crescent Victoria BC V9B 3N4 Canada [email protected] Pender Island, BC V0N 2M2 The Quarterly of the [email protected] Editorial Committee By now all those seeds you ordered from our annual American Primrose Society Maedythe Martin Michael Plumb, Secretary Judith Sellers Seed Exchange are probably sitting in their seedling Michael Plumb 3604 Jolly Roger Crescent Alan Lawrence mix waiting to send up promising little shoots. No Pender Island, BC V0N 2M2 Joan Hoeffel Volume 76 No 1 Winter 2018 [email protected] matter what kind of Primulas you have been are Editorial Deadlines Winter issue - October 15 growing, there will always be something else you see Jon Kawaguchi, Treasurer Spring issue - January 15 growing or hear about that you just have to have. The purpose of this Society is to bring the 3524 Bowman Court Summer issue - April 15 people interested in Primula together in an Alameda, CA 94502 Autumn issue - July 15 Since many of the more exotic and rarer species [email protected] ©American Primrose Society 2017 organization to increase the general knowledge of Primulas are not found in nurseries, our Seed Primroses (ISSN 0162-6671) is Exchange is your chance to grow them yourself. of and interest in the collecting, growing, DIRECTORS published by the American Primrose, Primula and Auricula Society. All Apart from the pride of growing your own plants breeding, showing and using in the landscape Through 2018 . Amy Olmsted material printed in the quarterly, except 421 Birch Road as noted, is copyright by APS. No from seed, you also have the opportunity to share and garden of the genus Primula in all its forms part may be reproduced without the Hubbardton VT 05733 permission of APS Manuscripts for them with other Primula lovers. and to serve as a clearing house for collecting [email protected] publication are invited, though there is no payment. Send articles, preferably in In this issue of the Quarterly you will find a ballot and disseminating information about Primula. Ed Buyarski Microsoft Word, directly to the editor. and short biographies of the people who are standing P.O. Box 33077 Photographs are credited and used for election. You don’t have to mail in the ballot to Contents Juneau, AK 99803-3077 only with the permission of the [email protected] photographer. Photos submitted to vote. You can also vote online by sending an email The View from Here by Rhondda Porter . .3 the editor are preferred in 300 dpi Through 2019 . .Julia Haldorson, digital format but other images can with your choices to the webmaster. Click on the Membership be accepted. Any material used that The Intuitive Gardener by Anne Hogue . .4 has previously appeared elsewhere is ‘webmaster’ link on the APS homepage. If you P. O. Box 292 properly credited and used with the want to nominate someone for one of the positions, Chapter Reports . 6 Greenbank, Washington 98253 permission of the original publisher [email protected] and/or creator. it isn’t too late. You must get the agreement of NAPS by Maedythe Martin . 8 Membership in the Society includes your nominee and they will need to supply a short Merrill Jensen a subscription to Primroses, seed biography. Send this bio to the webmaster for Rodney Barker by Judith Sellers . 9 c/o Jensen-Olson Arboretum exchange privileges, password to the 23035 Glacier Highway member’s only section of the APS web posting on the APS website. This person then Juneau AK 99801 site (including the Pictorial Dictionary) Primula in Sikkim by Jeanie Jones . .11 [email protected] and use of the slide library. becomes a “write-in candidate” on the ballot. Dues for individual or household Considering the Candelabras by M. Martin 21 Through 2020 . Cheri Fluck membership, domestic and Canada To make our society a success we need people to 22675 SW Chapman Rd, Wing A are: continue to offer their time and talents by agreeing Share your Morning Coffee by Jay Lunn . 24 Sherwood, Oregon 97140 $25 per calendar year $70 for three years to serve on the Board, by writing articles, by [email protected] Overseas rates are: Bioraphies for the Ballot. .25 $32 per calendar year organizing shows, by running the Seed Exchange, Mark Dyen $90 for three years. and by donating to the society. We aren’t all experts, Minutes of the Board Meeting . 28 132 Church Street Membership renewals are due Newton, MA 02158 November 15 and are delinquent but we all share a love of some of the more than 400 [email protected] January 1. Submit payment to the Officers of the Chapters. .31 treasurer. species in the genus Primula, even if we aren’t always Advertising rates per issue: successful in growing them. Black and White: Full page: $100 One of the many people who have contributed to the Credits: Photos and text reproduced with permission. Half page: $60 1/4 page: $30 APS is Alan Lawrence. Alan resigned from the board 1/8 page: $15 last year, after serving as President for the past eight Front Cover: Candelabras mix with azalea blossoms Color: at Royal Roads - Hatley Park in Victoria, BC Half page: $150 years. Despite leaving the Board, Alan has agreed to Full page: $300 continue managing the printing and mailing of the Back Cover: Save the Date for the National Show Back Cover: $450 Contact the treasurer for details. Quarterly, a not insignificant undertaking. Thanks, 2 Alan. 3 American Primrose Society Winter 2018 and I have added P. marginata ‘Mauve Mist’ and ‘Linda Pope’ to my The Intuitive Gardener collection. The white ‘Linda Pope’ is equally lovely. Primula denticulata, the Drumstick primrose, was planted in my favorite shades of lavender ANNE HOGUE and white (see below). Five years ago I turned 60 . My husband, who is retired and the main gardener now, and I, made the move to a new home, an hour south Day to day life can be a struggle for those of us with disabilities. Each of our previous house. We moved all our favorite plants with us, and daily task can seem overwhelming. Despite this, there are ways to now we have a “secret garden” even if it is still in progress. Primula are cope, simplifying life in all areas, like getting organized, downsizing just part of the garden: there are Damask roses, German and Siberian and getting back to nature, to name a few. Iris, native iris, pots of blue and pink hydrangeas, Calla lilies and at the Other than my family, the most helpful means I have found to cope center of the garden is an old Wisteria. over the years is gardening. It can be the simplest thing, like growing a There are pots of ‘Meyer’ lemons, ‘Hood’ strawberries and a secret few pots of herbs on a sunny patio, or a primrose by your back door. garden as well. At the age of ten I lived next door to an elderly lady who had a lovely Unfortunately, over the past three years, we have lost some of our garden, which I admired. Her entire back yard was surrounded by lilac Primula due to increasingly hot and dry springs and summers. The and the scent was heavenly. My parents rented our home, and there remaining Primula are now moved to the shade of an old lilac bush was no garden. I longed for a small garden of my own. where they seem to feel One morning as I was admiring the neighbor’s lilacs, I noticed a branch at home. They are joined within reach and found a pair of shears and cut a twelve inch section there by a few deer fern off the bush. Since no one told me I couldn’t, I stuck it halfway in and native trillium. the ground and watered it every day until finally it took root and grew. Shortly I will turn 65 years My mother never gardened and laughed at my attempt at this. “Don’t old and wonder where all expect it to grow,” she warned me. Luckily I didn’t listen. the time has gone. I still Due to dyslexia, I read very little back then, but one book I did read recall that day so clearly, 55 was The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett. I would dream of years ago, when I became my own garden that I would have one day. an “intuitive gardner.” As I entered by twenties, and as a newlywed, I developed a fondness for Primula. The first one in my garden was a lovely red-violet plant called ‘Wanda’. It was a gift from my mother-in-law, passed to her from a neighbor. Over the years, I added other Primula, such as the bright purple auricula, ‘Gordon Douglas’ and the vivid ‘Argus’, even the Longtime member Anne double primrose ‘Quaker’s Bonnet’ with its lavender blooms. Hogue lives in Corvallis, OR and despite failing I joined the American Primrose Society a bit later, and acquired eyesight still finds her seed from their exchange and grew the pale yellow Primula vulgaris, garden a great joy. the common English primrose, and the fragrant Tibetan Cowslip, P. florindae. I still have a fondness for purple and lavender blooms 4 5 American Primrose Society Winter 2018 manage to distribute seed in the spring and hope to share more seed again Chapter Reports this month.
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