Despite the help of her friend Bob Taylor, with failing health, she reluctantly decided it was time to retire.Val had been growing primulas for over 30 years and wonderfully it all started with a few packets of Barnhaven seeds, sent from the nursery which was then in Cumbria! It felt fitting for everyone that her beloved collection should be passed on to the nursery that inspired her to grow her first primroses.
After the death of her business partner Doug Lochhead in 2007, her husband Jack helped run the nursery until 2012, when he also sadly passed away.
Val Woolley was also the founder of the East Midlands National Auricula and Primula Society group. Very much involved in the show and plant fair scene in the UK, they also enjoyed a well-deserved international reputation for their fabulous collection. Many of the Primula in our area can be traced back to the late Herb Dickson at Chehalis Rare Plants and this likely carries the genetic memory of this specialty plant nursery from the 60s and 70s. Field House Nursery was the UK holder of the National Collection of Show and Alpine Auriculas and they also had a very large and well known collection of P. Heavily mealy-coated leaves and deepest red flowers with a white paste. As the descriptive implies, this auricula came to us with double flowers that are a creamy white. Thanks to decades of cultivation, auricula’s fragrant come in a wide range of colors, from purple to yellow, white to dark green. Note online stock availability is updated weekly please click on the product. Some flowers have a coating of farina, a substance that looks a bit like white or yellow cornmeal. We choose express post to ensure minimum transit time and safe arrival of plants. Most plants in this strain have a mealy coating on the leaves that gives the plant a. to .uk, or complete our online order form. Auricula flowers may be solitary or grow in umbrels or whorls. An exceptionally strong-growing & all-yellow auricula primrose. We were very honoured when Val Woolley of Field House Nursery approached us in 2016 to find out whether we would be interested in taking over part of her huge collection when she retired. Our current sales area will be reorganised to accommodate more Auricula growing.
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