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white evening primrose

14 years ago

Was unsuccessfully trying to germinate Oenothera pallida /white evening primrose/when I realized that is what spilling over on my neighbor's paths. Isolated and potted a number of them for fall swap gardeners who might like them as I do. what a beauty! those saucer like huge white flowers are some sign to see. Need to get my camera going.

What are your pleasant surprises happening?

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stage_rat
14 years ago
I've had a similar expereince to yours, but in more of a Murphy's Law way: once I actually DO get germination of some seeds, I somehow get a big plant of it that year--often at your swap!

This year I have learned that if there's a weed doing well in my yard, check and see if there are pretty cultivars of it. I don't like the look of wild Fleabane (erigeron) because it's tall and spindly with a tiny flower. But I just learned on the Cottage forum about cultivars with big flowers, some of them short, and I may be doing an order with hardyplants to get some seed.

I looked up that oenothera on Annie's Annuals, and it sounds great! Is it really fragrant? In my yard, the deer gobble every oenethera I've tried, yet Annie's says it's deer-resistant. But Scott's yard has room for a white oenothera... :)
soonergrandmom
14 years ago
Many years ago, I kept reading about yarrow and seeing pictures of it in gardens that looked nice. Since the real name was Achillea, and that was the name of the street where we had lived while in Greece, I thought it only fitting to plant. I ordered white and was totally disappointed when it bloomed and I learned that it was exactly the same plant of which I had about a hundred wild ones near my veggie garden that I mowed down every year.
This year (in another house) I got some in a trade and had to convince myself that I wanted to try them again......oh I hope they aren't white, because those grow wild everywhere here. Actually I have seen a couple of reddish-orange ones in a pasture near here also, but I would imagine they were planted by a bird.
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lblack61
14 years ago
Linda,

Picture, Picture!!!! :-)
(that sounds magnificent)

Linda
sheltieche
Original Author
14 years ago
yep, that thing smells like a vanilla or almond or equally yummy smell, but you have to stick your nose in it ;)
potted up entire 18 pot's tray of it
am going to try for pics but Annie's annuals reflect it pretty good.

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