Hardiness: fully hardy
Landlife Wildflower Seed Range:
By choosing Landlife Wildflower seeds you are directly helping to save wildflowers and the wildlife that depend on them for their survival. Landlife is a charity (reg 290510) who plough the profits from their sales into their environmental activities in creative conservation - developing new spaces for wildflowers to grow as well as safeguarding existing areas.
Evening primroses are prized for their ephemeral flowers that open at night and fade by dawn, and for their delicate fragrance that fills the air at dusk. The bowl-shaped, pale yellow flowers which appear on tall spikes from June to September seem to glow as the light fades and age to dark golden-yellow. They are happiest in a sunny, well-drained border or wildlife garden, and as the name suggests, are biennial. The flowers are an important source of nectar for bees and other insects and the seeds are used commerically for making evening primrose oil.
