Evening Primrose - Cottage Garden Flower / Herb
| Type: | Biennial |
| Approximate height: | Up to 1.5m |
| Flowering Time: | Summer to early autumn |
| Site and soil type: | Well-drained soil in sun or partial shade |
| When to sow: | Spring or summer |
| Where to sow: | Outside, direct into soil or under cover, into trays, modules or pots. |
| Packet contents: | Approximately 300 seeds / 0.2 g |
Evening Primrose flowers in its second year when it has a tall spike bearing large yellow bowl-shaped fragrant flowers.
These open in the late afternoon and evening and are very popular with Moths.
It is a caterpillar food plant for the Willowherb Hawk-moth which is sadly very rare in the UK, but luckily, other Hawk-moths are available 😊
Its other names include Field Primrose, German Rampion and the slightly puzzling, Scabbish.
Evening Primrose attracts and provides food for many different species including:
- Bees
- Butterflies
- Moths
- Hoverflies
- Bats
- An "RHS Plants for Pollinators" plant **
All our seed packets include sowing instructions.
Jemima’s Garden seeds are plastic free and reyclable. They’re contained in an inner glassine envelope, (made from pine wood cellulose), and an outer Kraft paper seed packet. Any shipping packaging is also plastic free and recyclable.
** RHS Plants for Pollinators. The RHS Plants for Pollinators mark is only given to plants that support pollinating insects. Find out more at rhs.org.uk/plantsforpollinators
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