After frosts and cold winters, nothing will lift your spirits like the first spring primroses that make their way through the snow and foreshadow the approach of spring. Early flowers are resistant to cold, unpretentious and multiply very quickly. Thanks to all these qualities, they are excellent for decorating summer cottages, parks, squares, etc. Quite often, the first spring flowers are used in landscape design, creating compositions of incredible beauty. This article presents the best primroses for summer cottages, as well as features of their cultivation.
Features of the choice of place for primroses in the garden: where to plant primroses
Since all garden primroses are winter-resistant, they prefer to grow in partial shade. If they are planted on the sunny side, in the summer when the direct light gets on them, the leaves of primroses will dry out and the plant will go into the winter without leaves. The following year, these flowers bloom weakly and may simply die. Early garden flowers go under the snow with green leaves. They grow quite quickly, within 3-4 months per season. After that, they begin a period of rest.
Did you know? Good neighbors will be perennial plants that begin to grow late in the spring, as well as creeping and low perennials, through which the flowers easily germinate.
Tuberous and bulbous primroses grow well in loose fertile soil, in a slightly darkened place. Before dropping them off, it is necessary to prepare the soil in 2-3 weeks. It needs to be dug up, remove all weeds, and then add a layer of compost and mix. Multi-component fertilizer can be used instead of compost. The first spring plants are able to grow and rejoice in their beauty for about 5-6 years, but they should be planted in the same place no earlier than after 5 years.Planting spring primroses, the use of plants in landscape design
Bright colors of primroses can be admired already when there is still snow in some places. Spring primroses are unpretentious and you can create an incredible number of compositions using beautiful spring flowers in landscape design. With their help, you can decorate the dacha plots, ponds, rock gardens, or you can simply plant in pots or containers.
Spring heralds in the meadow
The first spring plants can be planted both in the dachas and in the meadow. On the lawn, miniature onion bulbs, such as proleski, muscari or crocuses, will look very beautiful.
Did you know? The most spectacular will be massive planting, that is, planting bulbs close to each other and in large quantities.
When caring for a lawn, it is worth remembering that you need to mow the grass at a certain time so as not to damage the flowers. This should be done when primroses finish their annual cycle of terrestrial vegetation, and their leaves die off naturally.What primroses to plant near the reservoir
If there is a reservoir on your site and you want to plant primroses near it, then you should consider some nuances. When choosing give preference to moisture-loving primroses - near the water, they will feel best. On a mixed border, these flowers will look good with summer bulbous, as well as with perennial plants.
Planting spring messengers in rock gardens and mixborders
If you want to create an "Alpine" composition on your plot, then early flowering plants will work fine here, here are the names of some of them:
- crocuses;
- hyacinths;
- snowdrops, etc.
They need to be planted in groups, in this case, when they bloom, they will create colorful spots, and your rock garden will have a beautiful view. The same applies to mixborders, the foreground of which can be decorated with undersized primroses. Alternatively, you can plant them between perennials, which have large ornamental leaves. Perennials block the voids that will form when the primrose leaves dry out and retain the decorative appearance of the entire composition.Spring primroses for pots and containers
Almost all primroses are successfully grown indoors. To do this, you can use pots, containers, pots, vases. The main thing in this business is to provide the plants with conditions as close as possible to the natural ones. However, the agrotechnical cultivation of one or another primrose in closed ground may differ significantly, therefore, this issue must be approached individually. But do not doubt: dense planting primroses will look gorgeous, especially in the spring, wherever you put them.
Full list of spring primroses
Spring flowers are many species, but there are the most popular names that are best grown in our area.
Crocus 
Lilies of the valley 
Forest Anemones 
Muscari 
Spring blooming irises 
Snowdrop (galantus) 
Kaluzhnitsa 
Chionodox (snowman, snow beauty) 
Periwinkle 
Hyacinth 
Liverworm / coppice 
Kolhikum Bulbokodium / Brandon 
Crested 
Springman 
Primula ordinary 
Kosam Cyclamen 
Trillium erect 
Spring blossom 
Narcissus yellow early 
The hellebore (gelleborus) 
Lumbago 
Scilla or scilla 
Violets perennial 
Lungwort 
Lysihiton Kamchatka 
Chistyak ordinary 
Kandyk Tuolumni 
Features of the cultivation of primroses at their summer cottage
The best time to plant primroses is autumn, or rather the end of September - the beginning of October. It is this period that is recommended for planting, so that young plants have time to take root and at the same time do not grow to frost. Experienced gardeners recommend planting tubers and bulbs in a pink solution of potassium permanganate for half an hour before planting.
Important! If there is a danger of damage to the bulbs by pests, then before planting, if necessary, they are treated with toxic chemicals.The bulbs are planted to a depth of three times the bulb itself, and the distance between them is kept about three diameters. For rooting of bulbs 3-4 weeks are enough. When the ground freezes slightly and constantly low temperatures are set, the primroses' landing site is mulched with dry leaves, peat or straw.
Important! Never cover primroses in warm weather, as they may germinate. If this happens, then with the onset of cold weather the plants will die.Therefore, watch the weather carefully: depending on the temperature, shelter dates may shift. In the spring, when the frosts no longer threaten the plants, the mulch is removed. Make it highly desirable before the first shoots.
