Promiscuity in a Cuckfield wild-flower garden

 From a single Cowslip plant, Primula veris, left to seed on a lawn, which is mown twice a year in Autumn and winter, for many years, there are now hundreds of cowslips in bloom.

Among them are some colourful hybrids,  which may have come in as seed from neighbouring gardens or the result of a cross from pollen from gaudy garden Primulas.   They are dug up to keep the cowslips from too much genetic contamination but as they are quite pretty, some are potted up for ornamental flower beds.

Above has to go.

This one has been left, just for fun.  It is Primula x polyantha: a primrose/cowslip hybrid.

Time to stop the practice of chemical "feed & weed" now perhaps.  Enjoy wild flowers and spent less time mowing.