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Transplanting primulas

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  Posted by soomary (U11464444) on Tuesday, 27th March 2012

  I have just a small garden and the primulas look lovely at the moment, however I know that when the flowers fade the leaves will be large & floppy and take up valuable summer space. Would it be OK to move them to a pot and transplant back into the garden in the autumn? Any advice would be appreciated.
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  Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Tuesday, 27th March 2012

  What you can do is when they have finished flowering is to lift them trim the roots and trim the leaves-sounds a bit brutal but it works-and pot them up-you made also be able to divide them to make extra plants
  
  Keep well watered and plant them out later in the year for flowering next spring

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  Posted by soomary (U11464444) on Tuesday, 27th March 2012

  Thanks very much, I will follow your advice. Would replanting around October make sense?

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  Posted by thedogcody (U14659366) on Tuesday, 27th March 2012

  Yes- the soil will still be warm and ideal for replanting

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  Posted by thevodkarose (U13048111) on Wednesday, 28th March 2012

  When re-potting primulas, I divide the individual rosettes by hand, remove all leaves and pot on into small pots and keep well watered, and shady. I discard the older parts of the plant. I pot them on as needed until it's time to plant them for display again.
  
  Not all like that kind of treatment, but I find it works very well will polyanthus types and not so well with primrose types which have sulked for me if I divide them into small pieces.
  
  I did this last autumn with Gold Lace. I thought I'd left it too late, but low and behold I have lots of lovely little plants now in flower. IMHO, this type works best as smaller specimens in pots, as the intricate blooms get lost as a clump in the garden.
  
  I also have annual problems with fat green caterpillars destroying all the blooms, so lots of smaller plants make for easier hunting. It's hard to spot them in larger plants because they camouflage so well among the leaves.

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