auricula 'Beatrice Wooster'

Grow in pots in an alpine house or frame, using a mix of equal parts loam-based potting compost, peat or leaf mould, and grit. Alternatively grow in partial shade in moist but sharply drained, gritty, humus-rich, slightly alkaline soil

Deadhead after flowering

Propagate by division, or by detaching offsets, in autumn or early spring

May be attacked by aphids, glasshouse red spider mite, slugs, leafhoppers and vine weevils

May be subject to a virus, primula brown core and grey moulds