OSCAR WILDE, no great lover of the outdoors, complained that nature lacked a sense of design. "Her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition. Nature has good ...
High in the European Alps, squeezed between rocks or hanging on a precipitous mountain ledge, Primula auricula maintains its precarious existence. In winter it wraps its leaves around its embryonic ...
A basket of flowering primroses sat on my kitchen table from mid-January through Easter. These were the so-called English primrose, Primula vulgaris, native to southern and western Europe, northwest ...
They are all descended from a yellow-flowered wild variety, P. auricula, found in alpine parts of Austria and Switzerland. There are now more than 3000 varieties registered in England, some of them ...
La prímula, conocida comúnmente como planta primavera, es una joya en el mundo de la jardinería gracias a la belleza de sus flores y a su precoz floración. Existen más de 500 especies dentro del ...