It is Friday and Fridays are for fun. Many years ago my mother gave me half a dozen primrose plants. They didn’t do much at first but after a few years, I had so many I was pulling them out or digging them out and giving them away. I have way more than what she gave me and over the years they have moved further away from the shade of the house.
My primroses are a reminder of my mother and her love of gardening and of primroses. She passed away a few years ago and the primroses remind me of the many conversations we had about gardening and of the time she caught me pulling them out like weeds.
Primroses are native to many places in the Northern Hemisphere. They prefer climate zone 5, but survived just fine in zone 4. We have been upgraded in the Twin Cities to zone 5b. The leaves and flowers of the primrose plant have medicinal properties but I wouldn’t eat them.
