Primrose Time

This is a 'special,' Primula 'Broadwell Milkmaid' a Primula allionii hybrid raised by Cotswold nurseryman Joe Elliot over 40 years ago.   It's very free flowering, even much larger plants than mine can completely hide the foliage under a dome of flowers.   It's best grown under cold glass, shaded in summer and kept well ventilated at all times.  It'll be moved to a bigger pot after flowering and kept, pot plunged in sand, in my greenhouse which is open at both ends and has extra ventilation in the middle.   50% shade netting goes over the greenhouse from April to September.   There is a wonderful show of wild primroses everywhere round here at the moment, the settled weather is keeping them looking pristine.              

Another beautiful spring day.   A morning at pottery finishing glazing the four latest pieces.  My production rate is slowing down as a return to work approaches and while I can use the good weather to work in the garden.  Just one small vase and my clock-house await firing plus a number of small dishes I have produced for a glazing workshop I am running in a couple of weeks time.

After lunch and a little admin, I planted out a few recent purchases and did some weeding around and in the cold frames.   Weed seed blows everywhere :-/    A dog walk, food and choir tonight where we mostly worked on a piece called Vox which is all Ba da da da, Yo Ray, Loo loo and Oh.   Not a proper word in it but the three parts make a fantastic sound :-)