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Spring Forward
The clocks went forward last weekend and the evenings are really getting lighter at last. The first of the auricula pips in our cold frames are peeping through – in fact Helen Barter is looking...
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April Flowers
There’s a shower on the horizon and flowers galore in the cold frame today. The beautiful and fabulously named Rajah, First Light, Lincoln Bullion, Starling and Dr Lennon’s White are on top form. Have...
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The Original Auricula
Sun is streaming in at last. The original yellow Primula auricula is one of many beautifully coloured flowers on show and the scent in the garden is gorgeous. Rich is busy taking photographs. Click on...
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Until next spring…
The Auricula season is over, and here’s a selection of this year’s flowers. But there is still lots going on over on our Rich & Lou’s Loudhailer website, so please follow our blog there –...
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From Poacher’s Starlight to Bilbo Baggins — Rich & Lou’s Loudhailer
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Primula Auricula Pinks and Purples — Rich & Lou’s Loudhailer
It’s actually snowing today, but the sun came out at the weekend when Rich took these photos. A lovely selection of pink and purple auriculas. Click on a flower to see the full image and scroll along…...
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Flower like a Greenfinch — Rich & Lou’s Loudhailer
Today’s Primula auriculas – Lazy River, Sweet Pastures, GreyHawk, Clouded Yellow, Eden Greenfinch (colors like a greenfinch), and an unknown border we found in a Rotary Club car park plant sale. The...
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Rosebud like a Painting
Rich’s photo of Primula auricula Rosebud, isn’t she lovely… Auricula photographs © Rich Duffy-Howard Discover The Auricula Suite Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard – Visit our Loudhailer Home Page
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Yellow on Yellow
This is my favourite of Rich’s auricula photographs so far this year. The flower is called Curry Blend, I’m not sure I like the name, but the flower is one of my favourites – gorgeous. Yellow on...
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Mystery Flower
We found this lovely auricula for sale in Rotary Club plant sale in a car park a few years ago, so we call it ‘Rotary Club’…but what is it really? All ideas welcome! Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard – Visit...
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Altogether now!
Rich takes gorgeous closes up photographs of most of the flowers we grow in the cold frames in the garden, but I thought it would be good to have some pictures of them altogether. So I went outside...
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Serendipity, or one less ‘n’
This flower was a lovely mistake. Rich came back from Drointon Nurseries earlier this year with a box of goodies, new plants for our cold frames. One of my favourite scented plants is called...
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In the Pinkie Dawn
The cold frame is bursting with colour and scent. Here’s another set of flowers looking lovely under the lights today. Fabulous names as ever, Dr Lennon’s White, Redwire. Dilly Dilly, Conservative,...
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Flowers Like Garden Birds
In the garden today it’s a pair of beautifully named flowers. Primula auricula Eden Goldfinch and Starling, both lovely colours and reminiscent of the garden birds… Rich and Lou Duffy-Howard – Visit...
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George Swinford’s… Powder Puff?
Today’s selection of auriculas from the cold frame all have fabulous names. They are beautiful flowers with gorgeous scents too of course. So, here they are, under the lights this morning, Primula...
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Old Gold in the Garden
The cold frames are still bursting with colour, yellows, greens and purples today. Primula auricula Old Gold, Helen Ruane, a lovely double Gwen Baker, Starling and Rowena all look fabulous. Rich and...
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Who will be auricula #106?
Last night Rich asked me to guess how many different Primula auricula cultivars we have in the cold frames in the garden. I guessed about 50, but it turns out the answer is 105. So he made a table of...
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Hettie and Arthur
Hettie and Arthur make a lovely old couple… It all started because we are musicians with a garden full of Primula auricula flowers… Our album, The Auricula Suite is a set of songs telling a re-imagined...
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Primula auricula Loudhailer
Something really unexpected has happened and we are over the moon! It all started because we are musicians with a garden full of Primula auricula flowers. We are totally chuffed to find out that we...
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Primula auricula Loudhailer
Originally posted on The Auricula Suite: Something really unexpected has happened and we are over the moon! It all started because we are musicians with a garden full of Primula auricula flowers. We...
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