We spent 13 years building an abundant fruit forest, annual veggie beds, perennial medicinal herbs, and a healthy mixed hardwood-coniferous forest and now we’ve sold our property to the next stewards so that we can begin a new homesteading project in Vermont closer to our best friends and their kids.
Don’t worry - we plan to keep this website up and running so that our customers can reference what we’ve written about our plants!
We’ll let you know once we re-start a farm in Vermont!
Evening Primrose
evening primrose
Oenothera biennis
Biennial
Attracts pollinators
Edible flowers
Edible perennial
Fast growing
Sold out
Evening primrose is a great edition to a pollinator garden because it blooms at night and attract the nighttime pollinators. Every summer evening at dusk, you can watch each pale yellow flower slowly unfurl. Plants are biennial and bloom in the second year. They can grow up to 6 feet tall with many flower stalks. If you cut back finished flower stalks, they may keep on blooming or live another year. Leaves and flowers are edible, and the seed is pressed into oil that is used for women’s hormone regulation. Although it may die after its second year, if you let some flowers go to seed, you will likely see it growing in your garden elsewhere next year.
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