Primrose

Primrose

100 x 75 cm, © 2014, € 1 500,00
Two-dimensional | Painting | Oils | On paper
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This primrose is called Primula Bulleyana. It  thrives with dark yellow flowers in the period of May-June. The plant was introduced in Great Britain in 1908 by a man called George Forrest. He did this by order of Arthur Kilpin Bullley, director of a plant nursery, after whom the species was named. Initially trained as a pharmacist, Forrest became skilled in drying and preserving plant material and was schooled in their medical qualities. Using a legacy, he traveled to Australia in 1891 in order to explore its nature and trying to make a career as a sheep-farmer and gold-digger, but after ten years he returned to Great Britain and decided to engage seriously in botany and horticulture. In 1903 he was hired as an assistant at the Herbarium of the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh.