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Part II: Good Rock Garden Plants

by NARGS contributors

 Primula sieboldii
[prim-you-lah see-bohl-dee-eye]

A Japanese woodlander and one of the easiest of the primroses. It spreads in mats of light green crinkly leaves about 3" high, that go dormant in mid-summer. The open umbels of up to ten flowers on 8-10" stalks appear in late spring. The individual flowers, frilled at the edges and often snow-flake-like, are in shades of dark pink to white. In any reasonably good soil in deep or light shade or part sun the rhizomes increase in size year after year just beneath the surface. Zones 4-8.