One can collect hundreds of named cultivars of this Japanese primrose and not have two that are identical. This is an ideal plant for the OCD plant collector who wants to take a long deep dive - just make sure when trying to have them all that money remains to buy groceries and keep the lights on. White flowers flushed fuchsia with a reverse that is solidly soft fuchsia.  This will bring felicity to your garden.

Safe to say this is rare.  From the higher elevations in Yunnan, Sichuan and Tibet comes this collector's primrose.  This has proven very easy in our shade garden where the rounded sort of palmate leaves form a very dense canopy over the short creeping rhizomes.  Purple rose flowers are just what we wanted to see.

Another excellent selection shared with us by Jan and Marty, this has flowers with a reverse of rich purplish-pink and faces of lavender pink that are washed in white.  Each petal is gently heart-shaped which is very fortunate when one considers the possibilities offered by other organs. And we will stop right there.

A proven species for the garden, this Primula from China is in the Cortusoides section of the genus as evidenced by the broad, soft hairy leaves reminiscent of Primula kisoana but without the groundcover proclivities.  A good display of pink to rose-pink flowers on 12"-16" stems in late spring with sumptuous leaves in attendance if given light shade and a moist, organic-rich soil.

Star light star bright, first primrose I see tonight, I wish I may, I wish I might, Have this primrose I wish tonight.  Nothing subliminal here.  The five petals are shaped like a heart and are love-pink on the reverse while the face of the flower is white feathering to pink on the edges.  Good, big flowers in quantity on each stem puts on a show.

Good full heads of large white flowers whose petals align flatly in a single plane.  An excellent selection of this Japanese species.

Broad petals with an intricate dendritic margin that provides a bit of wonderment.  The backs of the petals are a gentle amethyst which bleeds through to the white face of the petals infusing them with the color of sun-tinted old glass.  This is easy to accommodate in the garden as it is not coldly distant with a petulant haughtiness but it does like to be admired which will come easily.

The pure white flowers are shaped like Amazon took its frightening AI algorithm capabilities and looked into everyone's hearts and minds to find the universal constant of snowflake conceptualization and then went to its secret biological modification lab and 3-D printed the snowflake gene and went all CRISPR gene splicing happy to make the perfect primrose for the snowflake market. Putting on my tinfoil hat now.

Pink flowers with a hint of violet that elevates this on the societal color palette preventing it from slipping down to the campy plastic flamingo. The broad petals have a small, white distant star for an eye and are nearly imperceptibly dusted with what could be airborne suspended particles of confectioners sugar lightly settling to rest. In our house, it would be a delicate white tracery as if from floating dog hair.

A Primula allionii hybrid which we received from the plant duo of Mason & Grimm at Hedgerows Nursery. The allionii hybrids are a tough lot and excellent for troughs, rock gardens and container culture. Small cushions of foliage on well-grown plants can get totally obscured by white flowers with a tiny cream eye. This is a good gateway hybrid to the many allionii crosses out there.

No ignoring this Primrose in flower! Some Primula are wee subtle things with no greater effect than the sound of a distant flute teasing the edge of hearing. This Primula is a full triumphant symphony with you sitting in the orchestra pit. Big heads of many nodding orange/yellow fragrant flowers. Rich and moist.

Rarely offered selection of this very hardy and extremely garden-worthy group.  Lots of pink flowers in spring.  Creates mats and is easy to divide the the rooted crowns to make more.  Part sun to shade suits this best.

A white flowered version of the normally pink Japanese which we never have enough of as it sells immediately.  One of our customers tells us how it well does under the trees in dry shade and we grow it in the dry end of our shade garden.  This has large fuzzy leaves and spreads rapidly by rhizomes if moist or slowly if dry or just right if in-between.

Robust Japenese selection of this revered Primrose species with nearly blowsy pink flowers on sturdy stems.  This presents some serious flower power for the species and always puts on a good show.  The species as a rule can take more dry than most Primula opting for dormancy.

Large flowers with appropriate heart-shaped petals that are light pink on the backside and pale white-pink on the front.  This is a comfortable plant with no surprises and you will have a sense of easy familiarity each spring when this flowers.  No drama, no challenging colors, just a solid beauty of the sort that if it could smooch, it would.

One of the most intensely colored Wanda type Primroses out there.  This is all to seldom available and the rich color of the petals springing forth fromthe "Jack-in-the-Green" calyx sets it apart from all others.  Tolerates full sun if given enough water but looks better given some relief from afternoon sun.  Sold before as 'Lois Lutz'.

This is a dandy cross between Primula minima which is really tricky to grow and P. hirsuta which is easy.  The result has the charm of minima without the temperament and the ease of cultivation which hirsuta offers.  Great foliage and vibrant reddish flowers.  Good drainage and morning sun.

Nice white flowered selection with broadly rounded petals on this Japanese selection of the species.  In Japan in the wild, this primrose is found on grassy edges and mixed with other plants which provide a dappled light. It is also more adapted than most Primula to a bit of summer dry.

Very cool Candelabra type Primrose with whorls of rich black cherry flowers.  Very distinctive and definitely eue-catching.  Loves a moist rich soil where it will gently self sow and frankly boogie until dawn.

Selected by El Supremo Plantsman John Flintoff from Loie Benedict's garden, this revered Japanese species stands above the multitude of sieboldii selections by having huge flowers and stout stems which don't flop.  Takes more dry than most Primula but don't push it.

A candelabra type which we found growing in a high boggy meadow in Sichuan in October 2012 where it mingled with other Primula species, Gentiana sino-ornata in bloom and hummocks of dwarf Rhododendron.  This is a good form of the species with large dark magenta flowers in tiers.

A choice Primula from the Italian Alps that is seldom offered for sale.  I know we hate to part with any.  These make bold clumps of distinctive foliage with short-stemmed clusters of dark lavender flowers.  This likes a moisture retentive well drained soil.

No ignoring this Primrose in flower! Some Primula are wee subtle things with no greater effect than the sound of a distant flute teasing the edge of hearing. This Primula is a full triumphant symphony with you sitting in the orchestra pit. Big heads of many nodding orange/yellow fragrant flowers. Rich and moist.

Classic name for what must be an English selection - in the US with our bright yellow squeeze bottle mustard, it would have to be old mustard indeed.  Easy doer we got from that consummate English plantsman David Mason and he didn't steer us wrong.  Wide leaves backing stems with umbels of pub mustard flowers with a white eye.

An easy plant for the rock garden or well-drained front of the border.  This doesn't require much beyond the basics and yet on this meager fare of occasional watering it will bloom most of the summer and well into fall.  To ask for more would be simply bad form.  Mat forming with gray-green lightly hirsute rosettes with umbells of white flowers with small green turning pink eyes.

Seedlings of this Drumstick Primrose from a red or "Rubin" flowered selection which will undoubtedly be all over the map in flower color as long as that map runs from point blue to point red since we cleverly have this growing near a blue denticulata. The older we get, the more we know and the less able to act on it apparently!

As the descriptive implies, this auricula came to us with double flowers that are a creamy white.  Many of the Primula in our area can be traced back to the late Herb Dickson at Chehalis Rare Plants and this likely carries the genetic memory of this specialty plant nursery from the 60's and 70's.  This has been a survivor for us.

Candelabra Primrose. Staggering floral display of tiered rings of flowers arrayed up sturdy stems from 18" to 30" when living large in rich, moist soil and all of this above broadly sumptuous and lightly rumpled foliage. A swash of these always leaves one a bit short of breath with its beauty.  Yours will be either vibrant fuchsia or tomato terracotta - a surprise awaits down the line.

Higher elevation Chinese species favoring a moist and rich with compost spot in part sun. This has long been a favorite species of ours with its pendant rose-purple flowers held on long pedicels heavily coated in white mealy farina and carried aloft on tall stems up to 2 to 3 feet. Sue grew this in northern VT.

An old Irish cultivar sporting an Award of Garden Merit from the Royal Horticultural Society.  Small creamy flowers getting a pink tinge with age are perfectly paired with the tidy small green leaves.  A dense clumper that puts on a good show, make that a jolly good show, old boy, in early spring.