Evening primrose

Apologies if there is a thread for this plant, but I did a seach without success.

Anyhow, yes, I know my shed needs a paint, but this new gardener just wanted to share our wonderful evening primrose plant, originally dug up from the garden of a friend in the process of removing to France.

We get such joy watching it unfold its splendours each evening ... just like a summer magic Christmas tree.



[ 20. July 2006, 01:55 PM: Message edited by: millymilly ]

 

Wonderful plant! Yes the link to your photo worked for me. Thanks

 

Hi millymilly, I used to have one in my previous garden, I miss it. Yours is lovely. You can put the picture on the page by putting after, like this

 

Thank you for your encouragement. It is still a wonder to me that I manage to grow anything at all. :D


Thanks, Liz, for that info; just did it...I had previously tried it using "url" as I do on another forum.

 

This is a dumb question, no doubt, but when and how does the plant seed? I'm deadheading it each day, which presumably, I should be doing. Does it develop seed heads, please?

 

When you stop deadheading it will set seeds

 

Hello, millymilly, and welcome to GC! That is truly a nice bushy Evening Primrose. It must be a different strain than I had as mine had rosette leaves on the bottom and thin stems of flowers coming out of them. I was not very keen on it and gave it away! The only one I grow now is the speciosa, the small pink flowered one which blooms in the daytime and it seeds itself everywhere! Lovely!

 

I spent �£5 on an Evening Primrose plant, on a visit back to the UK about 7 years ago..... quite a small specimen ........it was several months later that I realised they grow wild here ...dotted about hedgerows and through the vineyards !!! :rolleyes: :rolleyes:

 

I've seen them growing along motorway verges, there are lots of different kinds just google Oenothera

 

never realized why they were called "Evening primrose" but whilst up all night waiting for my bitch to whelp, they would be there open at 3.30 am in full bloom and heaven scent!

mine seed about all over, I just let them get on with it.

 

Thanks for all your responses; so glad to know that help is always at hand on GC...appreciated.
I'll leave the plant along and stop deadheading... :rolleyes:

 

gorgeous

 

Hi MillyMilly.
Now that you have stopped dead heading watch as the seed pods start ripening,and then going brown.
Mine split open from the top of the pod downwards,so you will have to keep an eye on them.
I find that on the yellow ones it is sometimes hard to break off the pods,and then they end up spilling some of the seeds in the process,perhaps that is another way the plant self seeds itself.
You can either sprinkle the seeds round the garden to do their own thing or store them in a paper bag that you have labelled somewhere dry until the Spring.

Good Luck
Kandyfloss

 

Thanks everyone for your encouragement. I can now make a happy announcement .... we have seed pods!!!!