Springtime's messenger - Primrose 🎀
🌟【Alias】Small species of Primrose, Shichibuya
🍭 [Scientific Name] Primula malacoides.
🌼 Primula malacoides has multiple whorls of umbels on its flower stalks, each whorl consisting of multiple small flowers in colors including pink, light blue-purple, or nearly a hundred shades of color. Primula malacoides flowers are small and delicate, with petals cascading over one another in shapes similar to those of a young girl in a dress.
Appearance Characteristics
Leaves: Oval leaves grow in cascades and are covered with fine downy hairs, giving them a soft green color, delicate to the touch and full of nature.
Flowers: Small and delicate, each flower consists of five petals, presenting a symmetrical silhouette. There is a wide variety of colors, including pink, yellow, white, orange, red, purple and so on, just like a color palette.
Inflorescence: Umbrella-shaped inflorescence, the flowers are concentrated and open, close but not lose the sense of dynamism, the overall appearance of neat and beautiful.
Advantages of planting
Low environmental requirements: Primroses are highly adaptable and can grow healthily in sunny or semi-shady environments, suitable for garden, balcony and indoor cultivation.
Long blooming period: the flowers bloom continuously from late winter to spring, with a flowering period of up to 3-4 months, injecting vibrant colors into the cold winter and early spring.
Highly ornamental: small and delicate plants and bright and varied flower colors can easily become the visual focus of any space.
Cold hardiness: can tolerate a certain degree of low temperature, ideal for early spring garden and balcony decoration.
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⛰️1, soil: loose and fertile soil is appropriate, potted plants can be planted with general-purpose nutrient soil, in the daily fertilizer should pay attention to, do not stain the fertilizer to the European primrose leaves, if accidentally stained, it is recommended to timely wash off with water, so as not to cause leaf scorching.
🌝2, light: primroses like sunny environments, preferring bright diffused light, but not for a long time in the hot sun, if long-term care in the dark corners, it is easy to appear due to insufficient light branches, loose plant, leaf color fading, less flowering and other phenomena.
🌧3, watering: primrose watering can follow the principle of dry and wet, see the surface of the potting soil whitish dry and then watered in a timely manner, try to make the potting soil to maintain a slightly moist and not dry state, avoid long-term stagnant water in the pot. Usually watering do not water to flowers and leaves, directly along the edge of the potting soil slow watering can be, otherwise it will lead to infection of germs.
🔥4, temperature: the growth of primrose suitable temperature in the 10-22 degrees, the temperature is too high, the plant grows slowly, when the temperature is low, the color of the flowers, winter is recommended to keep the ambient temperature above 5 degrees, 10 degrees or so is conducive to the differentiation of the flower buds of the primrose, to maintain 15 degrees or so, can be ahead of the flowering, and the flowering period can also last longer.
