- Description
- Key Features
- For the Botanist
This hardy biennial plant is known for its tall, graceful stalks of soft yellow blooms that open in the evening and attract nocturnal pollinators like moths and evening-flying bees.
Why You’ll Love It:
- Delicate Night Blooms: Evening Primrose flowers open at dusk, adding a unique, magical touch to your garden when other flowers have gone to sleep.
- Pollinator-Friendly: A key nectar source for moths and other night-flying pollinators.
- Low Maintenance: Thrives in full sun with minimal care, tolerant of poor soils and drought once established.
- Medicinal Heritage: Traditionally valued for its seeds, which are a source of evening primrose oil, known for its potential health benefits.
Planting & Care:
- Pot Size: 2.5 inches, perfect for starting small or adding to a larger pollinator garden.
- Light: Prefers full sun.
- Soil: Grows best in well-drained, sandy soil but adaptable to different conditions.
- Water: Water regularly during the first growing season; once established, it’s drought-tolerant.
Bring a touch of magic to your evenings with our Evening Primrose, and support your local ecosystem at the same time. Ideal for gardens, pollinator-friendly landscapes, and wildflower meadows.
7 Days to Emergence (Seed Germination)
70-80 F