JackyMT

By JackyMT

Primula Vialii

or Orchid Primrose. I bought this last year at the Church Summer Fair. very pretty plant.
Bathed the dogs today outdoors in the paddling pool. Molly was OK after, but Maddy did a loopy round the garden then promptly rolled in the dry soil under the conifer thus being muckier than before she went in the bath and had to be washed all over again. Molly did try and join in but she wasn't so bad just her legs had to be washed again.

In case anyone is interested I found this on the internet about the Primula Vialii.
Primula vialii was found by the Scottish plant hunter George Forrest (1873-1932), and was named P. littoniana after his friend, Consul G. Litton of Tengyueh (on the Burma-China frontier), who had provided considerable help in his travels in the locality. Aleister Crowley (1875-1947), the eccentric English writer on mystic and occult subjects, also travelling in China, reported meeting 'a botanist named George Forrest' and described how, when the unfortunate Litton fell ill, 'Forrest and I galloped furiously into the darkness' to get a doctor. Sadly, it was too late, and Litton subsequently died. The name P. littoniana is now relegated to a synonym, as the plant had in fact already been named P. vialii by another plant hunter, the French missionary botanist Père Delavay.

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