The cartoon shades of red, yellow, blue, purple and nearly orange of primrose, Primula acaulis (or Primula vulgaris) are still partying strong. They do not seem to be aware that, although perennials that could regenerate next autumn, they are likely to be replaced with warm season annuals soon. The cute flat-topped trusses of half inch to inch and a half wide flowers are short, but stand up above the even shorter two to five inch long leaves.
Tony Tomeo 
Are those natural colors or bred?
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I believe that they are all bred, and that the natural colors are pastels, primarily pastel yellow. However, I really do not know.
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I wish we could grow them as perennials here, but they don’t make it thru our winters. Pretty and simple little plants.
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They are rarely grown as perennials because no one wants to bother renovating them. There are some at work that have been there for years. We merely pull them up and plug them back a bit deeper than they had been. So- called ‘landscape’ companies make too much money by replacing things.
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I grew some a few times but they’re not as flashy as other annuals we can grow here.
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Although they sit rather low, their color is weirdly flashy. To me, they look a bit too fake.
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I don’t plant many annuals and I like the ones I do plant to be bright and eye catching.
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Well, these qualify for that.
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