h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Round my way there are both cultivated primulas in gardens and wild primroses in woods and banks.

Yours is probably a cultivated variety, but I like to see the wild ones too.

It might be a blue flag iris, Iris versicolor

http://www.thespruce.com/northern-blue-flag-native-iris-4125732

Failing that, it might be some sort of Spiderwort

http://www.missouribotanicalgarden.org/PlantFinder/PlantFinderDetails.aspx?kempercode=m630

If the primrose is cultivated, it is very close to the wild sort - I can imagine the insects love it indeed! Great to see so many flowers on one plant

I love the scent of Viburnum - I'm very lucky that there is a bush just outside the back door of my office building so I get to enjoy it regularly

I agree the blue flower is an Iris - you have a very neat plant!

Lovely colour selection, too - yellow, pink and blue makes an excellent Spring variety

I vote for Iris as the best of all possible plants.

Sorry for being late it looks like an iris, yes, I just thought it's a bit small for that. I'm not sure how small they can get.

irises can get pretty small.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iris_pontica

I have some larger irises but they are not even close to getting flowers yet.

I have irises too. They are up, and looking lush, but the bud stage won't arrive before late May.

Yes, it's exactly the same with mine.

Several years ago I bought irises bulbs in bulk because they were cheaper that way. Some barely survived that first Winter, and some didn't make it at all, and the ones that did only produced three or four blossoms. But every year since then, there have been more irises and more blossoms. I do absolutely nothing to them, and yet they multiply.

Life is good!

Oh yes, in my mum's garden they multiply like mad. Mine were already there when we moved into the house. I dug out a few and moved them to different places because the middle of the garden path didn't seem ideal. They all survived without problems. Later I also bought some bulbs, but they are a different kind of irises, with much more narrow leaves.

I have eight different bunches of daffodils, spread around the place. In some spots, they either hold their own or multiply. In others, they die off within two or three years. My working hypothesis is that they can't cope with underground roots from some of the trees and bushes. If there are no trees nearby, they're apt to do fine.