Tuesday 16 March 2021


 

 The Common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) is one of those wildflowers that proliferates in both town and country. The first photograph (circa March 2018) is of a lane in Dorset. The second (circa March 2019) was taken in Nunhead Cemetery, South London. And it's one of our native wildflowers that has become a popular garden plant. Perhaps the colonies we find in urban areas were plantings that spread though the Primroses at Nunhead might go back to when the cemetery was established beyond the bounds of the city?