I have just checked my garden, bought this last year - found the label but no sign of plant! It was very pretty last year -gorgeous flowers, label says 100cm but it was no way that tall, only got to about 12-18 inches with a very lax sprawling habit. So not trailing but not upright either!
I have always thought of evening primroses as tall and upright... at least the varieties i have grown have been. A metre would be about right for the common variety.
Try this one if you want a trailer lucky. Oenothera macrocarpa. Used to be called O missouriensis and you might still find it called that. Easy from seed, Chiltern have it
Enormous flowers for the size of the plant, which is at ground level.
Thanks nutcutlet , I will give it a try , the plant I bought had only a name - no picture. but the leaves seam delicate and differant to evening primrose
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No pic so difficult to say!
not a trailer lucky
http://www.pnwplants.wsu.edu/PlantDisplay.aspx?PlantID=403
In the sticks near Peterborough
I have just checked my garden, bought this last year - found the label but no sign of plant! It was very pretty last year -gorgeous flowers, label says 100cm but it was no way that tall, only got to about 12-18 inches with a very lax sprawling habit. So not trailing but not upright either!
I have always thought of evening primroses as tall and upright... at least the varieties i have grown have been. A metre would be about right for the common variety.
http://apps.rhs.org.uk/plantselector/plant?plantid=3633
Try this one if you want a trailer lucky. Oenothera macrocarpa. Used to be called O missouriensis and you might still find it called that. Easy from seed, Chiltern have it
Enormous flowers for the size of the plant, which is at ground level.
In the sticks near Peterborough
Thanks nutcutlet , I will give it a try , the plant I bought had only a name - no picture. but the leaves seam delicate and differant to evening primrose