I bought the book
Winter Gardening for Beginners, suggested on Ace this weekend. It is a very fast read, fifteen minutes or so and not very helpful. Most of the suggestions are what to do to prepare for gardening in Spring, what to do to prepare in Fall and the like, not actual winter gardening, as in growing things in Winter, and that is what I was looking for. Nevertheless, the book did mention that polyanthus is a good winter flower, and I did not know what a polyanthus is so I looked it up. Turns out polyanthus is a hybrid primrose that does well in shade. They are usually a single color petal with contrasting center and they come in a very broad range of colors.
This is a new hybrid. The photos I looked at all originate in Britain. They are all the exact same photo, actually. None of the websites were helpful for finding seeds. One vendor sells polyanthus seeds on Amazon. They too have a very wide variety of colors but not the propellers variety. I wrote them inquiring and included a photo. They said they do not have it, but they are interested, check back. So I will. In the meantime I'll try to find seeds in Britain.
I love flowers that look like they're drawn by a cartoon artist, and these certainly do.
Is this outrageous, or what? I'm tempted to photoshop them spinning around.
