Oenothera biennis - Evening Primrose - Seeds

Description

• Onagraceae Myrtales
• Eastern North America
• H 1.5m x W 1.2m
•  Z4 
• Biennial
• 1 packet of 50 seeds

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Detail

Oenothera biennis is a robust plant very easy to grow, which naturalizes very well in most gardens

The Evening Primrose offers ornamental interest with its large lemon-yellow flowers

They have a delicate and very pleasant scent

The flowers are worn during the whole summer on a high floral stem

Oenothera biennis has culinary uses (the fleshy root, harvested in autumn in the planting year, is cooked like salsify) and cosmetic uses (evening primrose oil), as well as medicinal properties (Anticholesterolemic, Astringent, Hypotensive, Sedative)

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Cultivation

Plant evening primrose in the areas of your garden that are of difficult maintenance or that you minimaly tend

You can sow it by just throwing seeds randomly in the beginning of March

This is a plant that requires no care