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Get twice the petal power with Double primroses

THE primrose may not quite be Britain’s favourite wild flower – it’s pipped to that particular post by the bluebell – but as one of the first flowers of spring, it has a special place in our hearts. Wild primroses have been in flower in my garden since Christmas, and two or three blooms in a blue egg cup on a frosty January morning offered the promise of spring even before we were into the worst of winter.

Growing wild across the UK, primroses spring up almost anywhere out of

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