Primula japonica Southwest Garden Plants butter-yellow flowers with a white

butter-yellow flowers with a white central stripe down the middle of each petal

the vivid yellow flowers at the end of the stalk are already visible

so it emerges in fall and goes dormant in spring

or more commonly now a day

the delicate pink buds emerge

Primula japonica Southwest Garden Plants butter-yellow flowers with a whiteI assumed for years that these would not thrive in our heat and humidity after seeing them in full glory in the upper Midwest I was wrong. This Japanese native thrives in bogs and damp areas forgot, we have to call them wetlands now. We have grown Primula japonica for over a decade along the edge of our woodland stream among pitcher plants, where they reseed politely, forming a slowly increasing colony. Starting in late May and continuing through