What: A harbinger of spring, Primula veris brightens the garden with its multiple golden yellow flowers. Cowslip has a smidgen of orange to reddish color at the base, inside each flower. In “A ...

You’re jonesing for early spring color and itching to plant anything green, but you’re also well aware of the unstable nature of Colorado’s springs that frequently drop snows in April. Pretty pansies ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... A basket of flowering primroses sat on my kitchen table from mid-January through Easter. These were the so-called English primrose, Primula vulgaris, native ...

The results of cowslip observations carried out with the help of citizen scientists from 32 countries in over 5,200 locations shed light on the well-being of insect-pollinated plants under changing ...

Primulas thrive in damp, shady and marginal areas – and they are welcome in a forgotten corner of Dan’s field The ditch which runs from a spring in the fields above us forms a wet crease between two ...

EARLIER this week on a brisk evening walk along the coast they caught my eye from a 100 yards away. Hundreds of them used to populate all the steep banks in this particular field, what’s known locally ...

We have three native primulas in England. Everyone knows two of them, the primrose (Primula vulgaris) and the cowslip (P. veris); both are wonderfully prolific in the wild and easy to grow as garden ...

Gardeners have been drawn to primulas for centuries. These early spring flowers, ‘prime roses’ in Old French, have had few rivals when flowering. And with so many varieties, success was guaranteed for ...

Citizen science initiative "Looking for Cowslips" has started successfully. This spring, everybody can take part in the largest cowslip observation campaign in Europe and contribute to science. The ...

The common cowslip primrose is a unique—heterostylous—type of flower. This means that different types of it exist in the population. The cowslip flowers with a long style and low anthers are called ...