Primula vulgaris Rosebud F1 Light yellow - English Primrose

The Primula acaulis Rosebud F1 'Light Yellow' is a stemless primrose from a new series that offers semi-double primrose flowers resembling just opened rosebuds. This one displays small flowers in a soft light yellow, pastel colour. With tightly curled and undulate petals, they closely resemble a freshly opened rose. This particularly early-flowering series sees its flowers appear as early as December and throughout the month of January. These new creations bring these perennials, often grown as biennials, back into the spotlight. They are perfect in pots, in flower beds, borders, and thrive in full sun or partial shade, in fertile and moist soil.

The Primula Rosebud F1 'Light Yellow' is a perennial herbaceous plant from the primrose family, derived from Primula vulgaris or Primula acaulis that can be found in our meadows and woodlands. It is a floriferous plant that forms a lovely clump of foliage in just a few months, reaching heights of 15 to 20 cm (6 to 8in) and widths of 20 to 25 cm (8 to 10in). It develops more or less evergreen rosettes of wavy and veined leaves, oval in shape and of good size, in a beautiful dark green. 'Light Yellow' produces small semi-double rose-like flowers, with undulate and tightly curled petals, in a delicate soft yellow.

The stemless Rosebud F1 'Light Yellow' primrose is an early-flowering plant, blooming at a time when few other flowers are present in the garden and on balconies. Reliable and easy to grow, it surprises with its rose-like flowers, just slightly taller than its opulent and ornamental foliage cushion. In flower beds or in containers on a balcony, it precedes the first early spring bulb blooms and other primroses. It can be accompanied by bushes or Hellebores, and small hybrid cyclamens. Primroses find their place in the garden, in borders, under the cover of bushes, in rockeries, among snowdrops and violets. The leaves and flowers are edible and can be consumed raw or cooked.

Benefits are the same as those of the common primrose and the tall primrose: the flowers are soothing and calming, they are used in expectorant preparations. The leaves fight against the formation of bruises, and the whole plant (especially the root) has analgesic, antispasmodic, diuretic, and expectorant properties.