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Harmony at the Club
Crikey, it’s been snowing round here this week. good job the auriculas like it the cold weather. They’ve lasted really well this year, but still, it’s getting towards the end of the auricula season. A...
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Double delight
There’s an auricula get together going on today, Gwen Baker, Helen Ruane and Hettie Wolf are meeting for Coffee. Lincoln Bullion is setting the scene – and there is a gatecrasher, Primula sieboldii...
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Nature’s Jewels in the News
There’s a lovely colourful feature about specialist auricula growers and Chelsea Gold Medallists Robin and Annabel Graham of Drointon Nurseries near Ripon in the Northern Echo Magazine. You can read...
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Winnifred and Eileen
It’s been raining for three days and finally the sun has returned. The flowers in the cold frames are coming to the end of their season. But there are still some surprises. Primula auricula Winnifred...
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Loudhailer and Friends Close the Show
It’s been another terrific year for our auriculas and the cold frames have been full of colour and and scent for weeks. As summer approaches they are coming to the end of the season. The highlight of...
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Primula auricula Loudhailer
It’s been a fabulous auricula season, coming to a close now. The highlight of our auricula year has got to be specialist growers Drointon Nurseries naming their new cultivar ‘Primula auricula...
View ArticleOne N or Two?
At the top, Primula auricula Winnifred, gold centred alpine on the left and border auricula Winifred on the right. That’s the difference between one N and two. Both in flower today, both beautiful. The...
View ArticleA Posse of Primula Auriculas
It’s baking hot in the garden today – the sunniest day of the year, the hottest early May bank holiday on record, and the auricula flowers are beautiful. In the limelight today are Dales Red, Taffeta,...
View ArticleThe Auricula Suite Live
We’ve got some live Auricula Suite garden concerts coming up. Looking forward to Hessle West Open Gardens 2018 this Sunday 20th May where we’re playing a live acoustic performance of The Auricula Suite...
View ArticleAuricula Suite at NGS Open Garden
Auricula Suite live acoustic performance as part of the National Open Garden Scheme this Sunday 27th May at 2 pm in Beacon Garth, Ivor Innes’ lovely Edwardian Arts and Crafts House with garden by Tim...
View ArticleOpen Gardens Auricula Concerts
We enjoyed two beautiful afternoons playing The Auricula Suite concert amongst the flowers at Beacon Garth, Ivor Innes’ lovely Edwardian Arts and Crafts House in Hessle, East Yorkshire with fabulous...
View ArticlePurple Feeling
The auricula season is coming to an end again, and we have a flourish of fine purple blooms to close the show as the curtain comes down – Primula auricula Rowena, T A Hadfield, Harmony and the...
View ArticleThe Auricula Suite at Burton Agnes Hall
Auricula Suite at Burton Agnes Hall Gardeners’ Fair 2pm 16th and 17th June Very much looking forward to playing our last concerts of The Auricula Suite for this season at the beautiful Burton Agnes...
View ArticleFlower Gallery 2018
We’ve got a few more Auricula Suite concerts this spring, and there are only a few auriculas still in bloom. So, let’s celebrate the season with a gallery of photographs of our favourite auricula...
View ArticleUntil Next Year…
As the summer solstice is round the corner and the auricula season is over we have finished our Auricula Suite concerts for this year. Thoroughly enjoyed playing our songs amongst the flowers at Beacon...
View ArticleNorthumberland 2018
Hello lovely family, what a brilliant time we had! Fab photos, taken by Rich, Corey and a few by me. Click on the gallery and scroll though (see if you can spot the UFOs!). Love from Mum! XXXXX (one...
View ArticleThe Flangector’s Flower
Primula auricula Loudhailer has been subject to the attention of the Loudhailer Electric Company’s keeper of the sacred flangector, and is full of flowers galore… Listen here, Sonic Architect Parsons’...
View ArticleBack to Burton Agnes Hall
We’re just back from a lovely afternoon at Burton Agnes Hall Gardeners’ Fair where we performed The Auricula Suite in the courtyard, and then had a guided walk round the walled garden. Looking forward...
View ArticleThe Auricula Suite
Welcome to The Auricula Suite website, we hope you enjoy it The Auricula Suite is a set of songs dedicated to the little alpine flower, the Primula auricula, and its history. It tells a re-imagined...
View ArticleThe Auricula Suite Live
We’ve got some live Auricula Suite garden concerts coming up. Looking forward to Hessle West Open Gardens 2018 this Sunday 20th May where we’re playing a live acoustic performance of The Auricula Suite...
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