Primula vulgaris Chinese New Year - English Primrose
Primula vulgaris Chinese New Year - English Primrose
Primula vulgaris Chinese New Year
Primrose, Common Primrose, English Primrose
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Description
The Primula ‘Chinese New Year’ F1 is a garden primrose that produces double flowers brightly coloured in red and gold with frilled petals reminiscent of a small ruffled rose. Its early and prolonged flowering is radiant in pots, window boxes, and borders in partial shade.
This short-lived perennial, often grown as a biennial, belongs to the Primulaceae family. It is a stemless primrose, derived from Primula vulgaris, known as common primrose, stemless primrose, stalkless primrose or large-flowered primrose.
'Chinese New Year' F1 was introduced to horticultural catalogues in 2024. The F1 designation means that the plants come from a controlled cross-breeding between two selected lines, to obtain homogeneous primroses in terms of habit, flower colour and flowering period. This variety 'Chinese New Year' offers very double, undulate, thick flowers, whose dark red reverse appears when the petals recurve. The plant has a low, compact, rosette habit. It reaches 10 to 20 cm tall in flower within a few weeks. Its growth is fast from autumn to spring, slowing down in summer. The leaves are ovate to spatulate, crinkled, strongly ribbed, crenate on the edges, medium to dark green. The foliage persists in winter in mild climates. The flowers appear at the top of short peduncles, roughly from January to March. Under cover or in mild climates, the first flowers open as early as January; in pots outdoors, flowering is mainly concentrated in February and March.
The red and gold of the flowers are two colours associated with Chinese New Year decorations.
Plant this primrose 'Chinese New Year' F1 in a pot, window box or in a border where the soil remains moist in spring, where you can enjoy it early in the season. You can pair it with the primroses Rambo F1 White or Rambo F1 Lemon Cream, with the viola 'Molly Sanderson' for its nearly black flowers, or with the variety Sorbet XP Lemon Ice Blotch, with a lemony white colour.
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Botanical data
Primula
vulgaris
Chinese New Year
Primulaceae
Primrose, Common Primrose, English Primrose
Primula vulgaris Chinese New Year F1, Primula acaulis Chinese New Year F1
Cultivar or hybrid
Planting and care
Chinese New Year F1 primroses can be planted in containers and window boxes or directly in the ground in finely prepared and enriched soil. Plant them as soon as possible after receipt, in September-October or March-April. If the intended location is not yet ready or conditions are unfavourable for planting, you can grow them on in pots for 4 to 6 weeks.
For containers and window boxes, use a good quality compost for flowering plants (such as geranium compost) enriched with clay and slow-release fertiliser, light and well-draining. The top of the plug plant should be level with the compost. Water thoroughly at planting and during the following weeks, as plug plants can dry out quickly. However, be careful not to overwater! Ensure you use containers with drainage holes and empty the saucer 10 minutes after watering. Remember to water even during winter if it does not rain or if the container is placed in a spot sheltered from rainfall. Do not water during periods of frost.
Very floriferous and fast-growing, primroses are hungry plants. From the resumption of growth, at the end of February/beginning of March, and throughout the flowering period, apply a liquid fertiliser for flowering plants containing iron and trace elements 1 to 2 times a week with the watering water. Remove faded flowers to encourage further flowering. Once flowering is finished, plants in containers can be replanted in the garden in partial shade.
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Hardiness is the lowest winter temperature a plant can endure without suffering serious damage or even dying. However, hardiness is affected by location (a sheltered area, such as a patio), protection (winter cover) and soil type (hardiness is improved by well-drained soil).
In temperate climates, pruning of spring-flowering shrubs (forsythia, spireas, etc.) should be done just after flowering.
Pruning of summer-flowering shrubs (Indian Lilac, Perovskia, etc.) can be done in winter or spring.
In cold regions as well as with frost-sensitive plants, avoid pruning too early when severe frosts may still occur.
The harvesting period indicated on our website applies to countries and regions in USDA zone 8 (France, England, Ireland, the Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...) fruit and vegetable harvests are likely to be delayed by 3-4 weeks.
In warmer areas (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), harvesting will probably take place earlier, depending on weather conditions.
The sowing periods indicated on our website apply to countries and regions within USDA Zone 8 (France, UK, Ireland, Netherlands).
In colder areas (Scandinavia, Poland, Austria...), delay any outdoor sowing by 3-4 weeks, or sow under glass.
In warmer climes (Italy, Spain, Greece, etc.), bring outdoor sowing forward by a few weeks.
The planting period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a (East Coast and Midlands: Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny, Portlaoise). It will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the north-west (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal, Westport), delay planting by 1 to 2 weeks in spring and bring it forward by 1 to 2 weeks in autumn compared to the dates given, preferably choosing periods without strong winds.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (Wicklow Mountains, Macgillycuddy’s Reeks, Connemara, Killarney), it is best to plant in spring (April–May) or autumn (September–October), avoiding periods of waterlogged soil in winter and strong winds, which pose the main risk to newly planted trees in these areas.
The flowering period indicated on our website applies to regions in USDA Zone 9a, such as the East Coast and Midlands, including Dublin, Wexford, Waterford, Kilkenny and Portlaoise.
This will vary depending on where you live:
- On the west coast and in the northwest (Galway, Limerick, Sligo, Donegal and Westport), it will be delayed by one to two weeks compared to the given dates, due to stronger Atlantic winds and less spring sunshine.
- In the inland hills and plateaus (the Wicklow Mountains, the Macgillycuddy's Reeks, Connemara and Killarney), flowering will be delayed by two to three weeks. Flowering mainly occurs between May and July, with the limiting factors being less frost and more of the excessive humidity, strong winds and lack of sunshine that are characteristic of these areas.