![]() ![]() Come spring, my little potted auricula will get a seat of honor somewhere, and perhaps I’ll be able to coax a private performance of fleeting spring flowers from it. I had been keeping one alive in my garden, just barely, for two years, and now I’m going to relocate it to a pot that will go on the sunporch for the winter. After visiting this estate and its perfectly ruined garden, the auricula has got its hold on me. There was a visible palimpsest of horticulture at Calke Abbey, including this potting shed, last used who knows when. The three-sided structure allowed morning sun into the interior, while the roof kept rain or dew from settling on the plants’ foliage. This theater dates from the 1830s and when I saw it hundreds of showy geraniums were arranged on it, auditorium-style. The oldest surviving auricula theater is at Calke Abbey in Derbyshire, England, the most wrecked and romantic garden of the dozens I visited there recently. Standing in the north-west corner is the country’s only surviving Auricula Theatre, built in 1830 pretty impressive hey The wooden alcove not only gives the plants protection from the elements, but allows a whole collection to be admired en masse and at eye level, where they create maximum impact. Auricula Theatre and an interesting collection of garden buildings. The ‘theatre’ tiered staging set under a shelter was a popular way for Victorians to display their prized auricula collections at eye level, also protecting the delicate silvery-white powder (known as. This floury coating can get ruined by wet weather, which is why the English invented the Auricula Theatre in the 17th century. Calke Abbey, Derbyshire - faded early 18th century baroque mansion in a stunning. The famous auricula theatre at Calke is believed to be the oldest example in the country, dating back to the mid-19th century. They’re also valued for something called paste, meal, or farina, which is the dusty bloom on the leaves and sometimes the flowers themselves. ![]() Auriculas are prized for the white eye in the center of the flower, and sometimes the thinnest knife edge of a white or gold edge on the outside of the petal. It’s a florist’s flower, a show plant that demands coddling. Auriculas are a variant of the primrose, but a plant so hyper-cultivated that it must rank with the silkworm and the English Bulldog as the species that humans have manipulated to the degree that they can’t survive without our continued intervention. The auricula thing started a few years ago, after a flirtation with primroses turned into something more long-term but not really monogamous or committed. ![]()
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