Comments on: Obsessive about obconica

By: Unknown

Unknown — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 04:58:24 +0000

I love this plant and have enjoyed many colourful blooms during cold winter months. Primula Obconica thrive on liquid fertiliser regularly (weekly even) and need to be watered at least to stop the leaves wilting. For lots of colour during the bleakest winter days put a Primula Obconica on your table during the day and leave it in the cold overnight.

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 07:47:00 +0000

I received a obconica as a gift in January of 2009. It blossomed out and the leaves wilted. I cut back all of the foliage and continued to keep the soil damp.
Last week, I was amazed to see the leaves growing and new beautiful blossoms blooming!
This plant seems to thrive best when handled as little as necessary!
Do you know if this plant can be placed outdoors when weather permits?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 05:40:00 +0000

I just received a primul obconica as a gift. What do I do when the flower dry up and fall off? Do I trim the flower stems?

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 04:05:00 +0000

Hi Matt,
The pink P.obconica you show loks much like the seed I have supplied to the APS seed exchange for 6 years or so. The flowers start almost white and progress through shell pink to deep cerise; many with a white picotee edge throug much of the duration. Given a large enough pot these can put on impressive dislays; on plant given to a friend has been in continuous bloom for almost 2 years. I guess they treat it better than I treat mine! My P.malacoides seed also has some interesting
2-tone pink forms many with w darker pink edge, and given a large enough pot will produce impressive plants with 50 - 70 blooms.
Regards
Alan Lawrence

By: GreenEnvy

GreenEnvy — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 18:49:00 +0000

Matt

I came across your blog just a couple of weeks ago and I wanted to thank you for all the good, and inspiring information — I am in the process of building my dream greenhouse in upstate ny — it is designed to be very “green” in that it is build into a hill with the mechanical room and the potting room underground and a 25′ cement and stone wall holds back the hill and acts as a solar collector via water tubes installed behind the stone — so, hopefully, the water will heat all day and then recirculate in the floor at night. I know nothing about greenhouse gardening, and will be using your blog as my teaching tool — to date I have been collecting hardy plants and designing/installing gardens at my home with them — I just patented and launch a new green flowering echinacea called ‘green envy’ …so the indoor gardening will be a new chapter. Perhaps we can talk more about your greenhouse expertise as I get closer to completion over the next month or so? [email protected] — thanks again for all the great information and inspiration.