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Do I need to de-head these primulas?

fizzylizfizzyliz Posts: 390

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  • LynLyn Posts: 22,865
    I do, it looks nicer, but up to you.

    i find the Denticulata particularly self seeds, I have the purple ones and confine loads to the compost heap every year.
    When the leaves start looking tatty, grab the whole thing and cut down as near to the soil as you can, they’ll come up with lovely nice bright growth for the summer, won’t flower again but will look nice.

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 14,362
    IMO life is too short.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Bee witchedBee witched Posts: 1,240
    Hi @fizzyliz,

    I don't think you need to deadhead, if you leave them for a bit they may well seed around and you'll have more plants. Once they are totally brown and scruffy you could trim them off to tidy up.

    Bee x
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    Gardener and beekeeper in beautiful Scottish Borders  

    A single bee creates just one twelfth of a teaspoon of honey in her lifetime
  • LynLyn Posts: 22,865
    You can easily split the plants to make more, every year they multiply.  Your Denticulata looks as though there’s one on the side now,  if you dig it up and gently tease them apart you can replant them. 
    @punkdoc. They are my main flowering plants for early spring, my garden would be quite drab if not for them.  

    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • punkdocpunkdoc Posts: 14,362
    I love them too @Lyn, but as you say, i divide them if I want more, plus they self seed all over.
    How can you lie there and think of England
    When you don't even know who's in the team

    S.Yorkshire/Derbyshire border
  • Nanny BeachNanny Beach Posts: 8,601
    That is SO weird Punkdoc because that's EXACTLY what I was going to put
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