Your son would have been horrified. I have to hope the primroses were moved or died.
When we were new here one neighbor introduced herself. As we talked I mentioned I'd be changing the horrid garden of rounded shrubs to flowers and the matching side (also filled with all rounded shrubs) to a rose garden. She was horrified and replied, "Flowers in the front?", though her husband was in the bulb and perennial business! You'd think she'd have been happy about it!