Plant Catalog Fall 2007-Spring 2008
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THE
NURSERY
The Primrose Path has introduced many
new plants in
the last 20 years. The owner, Charles Oliver, received
the Marcel LePiniec Award for new plant introductions
from the North American Rock Garden Society in 1998. Our
plants are being marketed by licensed producers such as
Blooms of Bressingham, Gootjes-AllPlant, CNB,
Walters Gardens, B & B Laboratories, PhytaCell
Technology, North Creek Nurseries, and others. We are
located in southwestern Pennsylvania, a region that
combines extremes of heat and cold with unreliable summer
rainfall and winter snow. Our plant introductions have
had to cope with northeastern winters and summers. Our
customers report superior survival of potted plants of
our selected varieties wintered outside.OUR BREEDING AND SELECTION PROGRAM
Our heuchera breeding program has included some
little-known eastern US forms that combine extreme
drought and cold tolerance with the biggest flowers in
the genus. Our new hybrid heucheras have showy flowers as
well as gorgeous foliage. The Petite heucheras are
miniature forms suited to small gardens and containers.
'Silver Scrolls' and its relatives and 'Frosted
Violet' bring a new look to heucheras and brighten
shade gardens with their colorful, silvery leaves.
Our early crosses with tiarella are the stock from which
nearly all the new hybrids on the market have been
derived. Our cultivars have superior vigor as well as
striking foliage form and coloration. 'Elizabeth
Oliver' is among the most widely-sold tiarellas in the
US.
We are the breeders of Heucherella
'Quicksilver,' one of the most vigorous and showy
heucherellas on the market, and, we believe, one of the
very best new shade plants of the last decade.
PROPAGATION AT THE PRIMROSE
PATH
The plants we offer are propagated by tissue culture in
our lab. We are the primary source for many of our plants
and the exclusive source for some of our newest
introductions. Charles and Martha Oliver and Regina
Birchem manage the laboratory, which serves as a facility
both for the production of our plants and for the
development of propagation techniques for new plant
introductions, as well as the basic source of
breeder-approved propagation stock.
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