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When we had the B & B in Tennessee I used to see a pretty light pink flower about 18 to 20 inches tall growing over near the front of a house each spring whenever I went to town. Once we moved to Kentucky I was able to discover some on a seed packet display and the name simply said Primrose. Since it was a perennial I bought a package and planted them about nine years ago. They promptly came up and were very pretty, But, and I really mean a big but! They have taken over my garden.
Now these are not those lovely English Primroses that come in all kinds of varieties and colors. It has been so long since I planted these that I do not even remember that what the label said.
The second season there was a few more of them and some of them seemed to be in places I did not plant them. Since I had only planted one small package and in only one place I pulled out the ones I did not want from places they were not supposed to be in.
The third season they were a lot more than a few more and I valiantly tried to remove as many as I could leaving the original patch so I could enjoy these beauties.
Now we are into the ninth season and by the fourth season I have given up on these little guys. They rule the garden and have taken over the back patio. Apparently they are root spreading perennials and will come up through even the tiniest crack in your walk way or path and indeed I have a primrose path as the old song goes, but I have them all over the place. They seem to love the sun and once they bloom there is a sea of pink blooms all over the place and they are very pretty. They last for about 4 weeks and the butterflies seem to enjoy them even more than we do.
Since we have several stone walkways through the cottage garden we now just send someone through with a weed whacker or we would be walking through beds of these plants.
So really watch what you plant and remember that old adage, “You better want what you are getting because you are getting it!”
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