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How to Grow Evening Primrose: Growing Guide to Planting, Care & Harvest

Sun-loving evening primroses and sundrops; many open at dusk and fade by morning, need little water or feed, and resent transplanting.

Evening Primrose

Oenothera spp.

Growing calendar

Typical timing for central Japan (Kanto region). Shift it for your own climate, and record your actual dates.

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Guides

Pests and diseases (1)

Problems recorded for this plant, most serious first.

Waterlogging Root Decay

CommonDisorder

The plant wilts even though the soil never dries, and the lower leaves yellow. Pull it up and the roots have turned brown to black with a distinctive rotten smell.

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