Primula x tommasinii 'You and Me Blue'

 

Primula x tommasinii 'You and Me Blue'

 

Description

Primula x tommasinii ‘YOU and ME’ is a free flowering hose-in-hose double primula that constantly blooms from February to June, in ten sparkling clear colors. This 12″ partial shade lover is the hardiest known primrose, flourishing in zone 4. Divide this long-lived perennial every 4–5 years and it will perform vigorously for many years. This rare two-layered primrose blooms in sparkling shades of blue and purple, rose and pink, white and cream, as well as yellow, red laced, salmon, and maroon laced. Popular in Elizabethan times, hose-in-hose primroses carry pairs of identical flowers curiously nested one inside the other. The name refers to a style affected by courtiers who wore two pairs of long stockings (hose) at once, folding down the outer pair to reveal the inner. First described in Gerard’s Herbal in 1597, hose-in-hose primroses are among the oldest documented garden flowers. In the late 1800’s, Gertrude Jekyll’s selected white and yellow Munstead hose-in-hose primulas were famed for hardiness and persistent, colorful bloom.

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