With delightfully colorful flowers that bloom from spring to fall and open well into the late afternoon, evening primrose plants add some late-night floral flair to the garden.
Native to the Americas and naturalized throughout the Old World, the Oenothera genus is pretty impressive.
The genus has a collectively wide hardiness range of USDA Zones 3 to 11, and is pretty tough as a whole. Poor soils, drought, overall neglect – evening primroses can handle it all.
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Our guide to growing evening primrose discusses how to cultivate these plants in your landscape. And there are a number of different varieties available to home gardeners.
The Oenothera genus comprises around 150 species, give or take, and they’re not all winners when it comes to aesthetics. But the ones that are, they win with glory – glory that could be yours to flaunt.
This guide separates the wheat from the chaff and the finest from the sort-of-fine.
Here they are:
9 of the Best Evening Primroses
But first, a quick note:
Many types of evening primrose can grow aggressively, to the point where the plants can expand beyond where they were originally intended to be planted.
Treat it like you would mint and don’t let it take over the garden!
1. Beach
Native to stretches of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of North America, the beach evening primrose is probably the flower that Jimmy Buffet would have sung about, had his lyrics focused on Oenothera flowers instead of Margaritaville.
Also known as O. drummondi, this plant owes its botanical name to the Scottish naturalist Thomas Drummond, a notable plantsman who
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