Oenothera speciosa / Evening Primrose

Shear plants after blooming to improve appearance and create rebloom.This now-prominent plant in my garden arrived as a weed, blown in from around the neighborhood. But I’ve nurtured it, even helped it spread, because it’s a do-er. It looks gorgeous winding among the later-blooming perennials, and it blooms in a lovely pink when almost nothing else blooms in my garden. I can’t remember ever watering it.

Native from the Midwest south to Texas and Mexico.

Details

• It’s only 1 to 3 inches tall — really, a groundcover.
• Blooms appear in late spring/early summer.
• Likes sun or part-shade and average soil.
• Hardy in Zones 5 to 8.

Care

Shear plants after blooming to improve appearance and create rebloom.