Primula vulgaris Rosebud F1 Tutti frutti - English Primrose

The Primula acaulis Rosebud F1 'Tutti Frutti' is a stemless primrose from a new series that offers semi-double primrose flowers resembling rosebuds. 'Tutti Frutti' delights us with soft pastel colours: a range of pink, salmon pink, and pale yellow. Its small petals are tightly curled and undulate, resembling a rosebud about to bloom. This particularly early-flowering series sees its flowers appear from December and throughout January. They are perfect in pots, planters, flower beds, borders, and thrive in full sun or partial shade, in fertile and moist soil.

The Primula Rosebud F1 'Tutti Frutti' is a perennial herbaceous plant from the primrose family, derived from Primula vulgaris or Primula acaulis that can be found in meadows and woodlands. It is a floriferous plant that forms a lovely clump of foliage in 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 veined and wavy leaves, oval in shape and of good size, in a beautiful dark green. 'Tutti Frutti' produces small semi-double flowers resembling just-opened roses, with undulating and tightly curled petals, in a trio of pastel colours: soft pink, apricot, and pale yellow.

The Rosebud F1 'Tutti Frutti' stemless 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 amazes with its rose-like flowers, barely taller than its lush and ornamental foliage. In flower beds or in planters on a balcony, it precedes the first early-year blooms of late winter bulbs and other primroses. It can be accompanied by heathers 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: they are the same as those of the common primrose and the tall primrose: the flowers have soothing and calming properties and are used in expectorant preparations. The leaves help prevent bruising, and the whole plant (especially the root) has analgesic, anti-spasmodic, diuretic, and expectorant properties.