Oenothera Species, Birdcage Evening Primrose, Desert Primrose, Dune Primrose

Mine grows beautifully here in Phoenix it bloomed well in the spring and now is now blooming again this fall. It is magnificent. It gets ...Read Morea little shade in the afternoon but has sun in the hottest/longest part of the day. On a scale of 1-10 for growing ease I'd give it an 8 and in Arizona that's a great thing! I bought mine from a local nursery specializing in desert plants.

They grow wild here in the alkali sands of the Nevada Great Basin high desert. Where I live, they only show up during long, (relatively)...Read More wet, cool springs. Blooms open in the evening and on cloudy days. One site says that they grow below 3,500 feet above sea level, but we are well above that at 4,200 feet and they seem to do well any time it rains or snows a lot in the spring. As soon as the 90*F weather arrives, they disappear. I have seen hawk moths fluttering around them, but I have not observed them actually drinking nectar from them. I have NOT seen hawk moth caterpillars on them.