EVENING PRIMROSE GOLDEN YELLOW - Oenothera lamarckiana

The yellow evening primrose blooms at night. It produces lovely yellow flowers in spring to summer.

It is considered to have a wide array of medicinal uses from relieving headaches and inducing labour to curing baldness and as a treatment for laziness.

The all parts if the evening primrose plant can also be eaten. The leaves are eaten like leaves and the roots are eaten like peppery potatoes.

Growing evening primrose is extremely easy to do. The yellow evening primrose plant is happiest in dry open areas similar to the open meadows where they thrive in the wild. Simply spread the seeds where you would like them to grow and as long as it is not too wet, the yellow evening primrose will happily grow. It is a biennial that will reseed itself where ever you plant it but it is not very invasive and will remain well behaved in your flower beds.

Transplanting an evening primrose plant will probably not succeed so you are better off planting them from seed.

This plant is also said to have many medicinal purposes.  Please consult a qualified medical practitioner that can offer you the best advice for your personal circumstances.   This seed is sold for its decorative qualities as a plant.

This listing is sold by weight, and each packet ought to contain an approx. 500 seeds.

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