Primroses Offer Color and Care Tips for Spring Planting
A reader recalls a gray Sunday and then explores primroses from the American Primrose Society. The piece explains modern hybrids Primula acaulis and Primula polyanthus, their cool-greenhouse cultivation, care needs, light and moisture requirements, and cautions about indoor warmth and plastic wrap. It notes rebloom possibilities and shares a personal tale of primroses used in a wedding bouquet and later garden reemergence. Evening and Cape primroses are not true primroses.
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Readers weigh in on mothers paying for partners
Dear Abby letters debate whether a mother should pay two years of room and board for her daughter's partner. Readers argue the burden should fall on the young couple and applaud the grandmotherly stance of independence. The exchange touches respect, adulthood, and parental limits.
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