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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Sow / plantGrowingFlowering
Guides
- How to Sow Evening Primrose: Fresh Seed in Late Winter, Flowers the Year After
- Evening Primrose Care: Full Sun, Lean Soil and Very Little Water
- Evening Primrose Flowers: Night Bloomers, Day Bloomers and How to Get More
- Evening Primrose Through the Year: A Season by Season Schedule
- Evening Primrose Pests and Diseases: Flea Beetles, and Rot in Wet Soil
- Propagating Evening Primrose: Saving Seed, and Dividing Showy Evening Primrose
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.