Last night Rich asked me to guess how many different Primula auricula cultivars we have in the cold frames in the garden. I guessed about 50, but it turns out the answer is 105. So he made a table of them as they are today. They have some fabulous names as you can see in the chart below. I wonder what the next one in our list will be called?
| No. | Name | Type |
| 1 | Arthur Delbridge | LCA |
| 2 | Annandale Yellow* | found |
| 3 | Athene | Grey Edge |
| 4 | Atlantic | Blue Self |
| 5 | Belle Zana | AOC Self |
| 6 | Bilbo Baggins | GCA |
| 7 | Blue Yodeller | LCA |
| 8 | Brasso | Yellow Self |
| 9 | Brownie | Border |
| 10 | Chaffinch | AOC Self |
| 11 | Chelsea Bridge | LCA |
| 12 | Chloë | Green Edge |
| 13 | Clouded Yellow | Edged Fancy |
| 14 | Coffee | Edged Fancy |
| 15 | Conservative | Grey Edge |
| 16 | Cortez Silver | Grey Edge |
| 17 | Crimple | Edged Fancy |
| 18 | Crimson Glow | Double |
| 19 | Crinoline | Edged Fancy |
| 20 | Curry Blend | Border |
| 21 | Dales Red | Border |
| 22 | Dilly Dilly | LCA |
| 23 | Doctor Lennon’s White | Border |
| 24 | Eden Goldfinch | Border |
| 25 | Eden Greenfinch | Border |
| 26 | Eileen | Edged Fancy |
| 27 | Fancy Free | Grey Edge |
| 28 | Fanfare | Edged Fancy |
| 29 | Favourite | Red Self |
| 30 | Fiddler’s Green | Edged Fancy |
| 31 | First Light | Border |
| 32 | Fleet Street | Edged Fancy |
| 33 | Fleminghouse | Green Edge |
| 34 | Forest Lemon | Double |
| 35 | Fred Booley | Double |
| 36 | Gay Crusader | GCA |
| 37 | George Swinford’s Leathercoat | Border |
| 28 | Goldie | Border |
| 39 | Green Finger | Edged Fancy |
| 40 | Grey Monarch | Edged Fancy |
| 41 | Grey Hawk | Grey Edge |
| 42 | Gwen Baker | Double |
| 43 | Harlow Carr | Border |
| 44 | Harmony | LCA |
| 45 | Helen Barter | Edged Fancy |
| 46 | Helen Ruanne | Edged Fancy |
| 47 | Hetty Woolf | White Edge |
| 48 | Lavender Lady | Border |
| 49 | Lazy River | GCA |
| 50 | Lemon Sherbet | Border |
| 51 | Leverton | Double |
| 52 | Lincoln Bullion | Double |
| 53 | Lincoln Imperial | Double |
| 54 | MacWatt’s Blue | Border |
| 55 | Margaret Martin | Grey Edge |
| 56 | Mazetta Stripe | Stripe |
| 57 | Minstrel | Grey Edge |
| 58 | Moon Fairy | Fancy |
| 59 | Mrs. Hearne | LCA |
| 60 | Nymph | Double |
| 61 | Old England | Edged Fancy |
| 62 | Old Gold | Border |
| 63 | Old Mustard | Border |
| 64 | Orb | Green Edge |
| 65 | Piglet | Double |
| 66 | Pinkie Dawn | Border |
| 67 | Powder Puff | Border |
| 68 | Prague | Green Edge |
| 69 | Primula auricula | Border |
| 70 | Prince John | GCA |
| 71 | Prince Bishops | GCA |
| 72 | Prosperine | Green Edge |
| 73 | Psyche | Green Edge |
| 74 | Rajah | Edged Fancy |
| 75 | Raleigh Stripe | Stripe |
| 76 | Red Wire | Stripe |
| 77 | Reddown Apricot | Border |
| 78 | Reddown Tickled Pink | Border |
| 79 | Robbo | Border |
| 80 | Robin Hood Stripe | Stripe |
| 81 | Rolts | Fancy |
| 82 | Rondy | Fancy |
| 83 | Rotary Club* | found |
| 84 | Rosalie Edwards | Grey Edge |
| 85 | Rosebud | Border |
| 86 | Rosemarket Rackler | Border |
| 87 | Rowena | LCA |
| 88 | Scipio | Green Edge |
| 89 | Scorcher | Red Self |
| 90 | Silverways | Grey Edge |
| 91 | Sirius | LCA |
| 92 | Starling | Fancy |
| 93 | Sumo | GCA |
| 94 | Sunflower | Yellow Self |
| 95 | Susannah | Double |
| 96 | Sweet Pastures | Edged Fancy |
| 97 | Taffeta | AOC Self |
| 98 | Tamino | Green Edge |
| 99 | Teem | Grey Edge |
| 100 | Toolyn | Blue Self |
| 101 | Trafalgar Square | Edged Fancy |
| 102 | Trouble | Double |
| 103 | Warpaint | Stripe |
| 104 | Winifred | Border |
| 105 | Yorkshire Grey | Grey Edge |
| 106 | ? | ? |
Auricula photographs © Rich Duffy-Howard
It all started because we are musicians with a garden full of Primula auricula flowers…
Our album, The Auricula Suite is a set of songs telling a re-imagined story of a historical journey to a new land. Inspired by folk tales of the alpine flower – the Primula auricula – and its 16th century journey to England with the Huguenot refugees, it is a tale of love and loss, persecution and a new beginning.
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