The common cowslip primrose is a unique—heterostylous—type of flower. This means that different types of it exist in the population. The cowslip flowers with a long style and low anthers are called ...

What: A harbinger of spring, Primula veris brightens the garden with its multiple golden yellow flowers. Cowslip has a smidgen of orange to reddish color at the base, inside each flower. In “A ...

A basket of flowering primroses sat on my kitchen table from mid-January through Easter. These were the so-called English primrose, Primula vulgaris, native to southern and western Europe, northwest ...

Sometimes the simplest flowers are the best, says Charles Quest-Ritson, as he looks at primroses, cowslips and their wonderful hybrids. Primroses and cowslips are plants of our native woods and ...

COWSLIP wine, cowslip balls, cowslip posies and cowslip cream are long gone, as are the swards of flowers in the fields that once provided the raw materials. Cowslips are making a come-back in some ...

PRIMROSES are scarce, unlike long-tailed tits which this year are being widely noticed, a miracle of tiny birds in a remarkable recovery. In one place where there is shelter between banks, widening ...

FOR above twenty years I have observed every spring in my shrubberies and in the neighbouring woods, that a large number of the flowers of the primrose are cut off, and lie strewn on the ground close ...