Oenothera 'Apricot Delight'
Evening primrose
- Height × spread
- 1.1m × 0.4m
- Position
- Full sun
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Flowers
- Summer, Autumn
Availability
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About this plant
A rather slender plant that sends up long blue-green flowering stems from a neat base of slim arching leaves. The large, rather loose, cup-shaped flowers are yellow when they first open, maturing to a soft apricot-hued pink. They open from dark red buds and are sweetly fragrant. This flowers for a long season from July, going into September. This plant could easily get lost in a busy planting and looks especially good when given some space in a sunny gravel garden.
- Flower colour
- Apricot, Pink, Yellow
- Foliage colour
- Blue
- Variegated
- No
- Scent
- Yes, sweet
- Shape
- Column
- Height
- 1.1m
- Spread
- 0.4m
- Season of interest
- Summer, Autumn
- Flowers in
- Summer, Autumn
- Evergreen
- Deciduous
- Garden style
- Seaside garden, Gravel garden
- Sun or shade
- Likes full sun
- Soil type
- Chalk, Loam (normal)
- Soil pH
- All types
- Drainage
- Moisture retentive soil, Well drained soil, Dry soil, Drought resistant
- Hardiness
- Cold to -15C (RHS H5)
- Borders & containers
- Borders
- Use for
- Bee attraction, Bird attraction
- Hazards
- No
Spring
Spring-Autumn · Outdoors
Water in dry periods
Established plants in the ground can cope with 7-10 days of dryness, and shrubs often manage 2 to 3 weeks. Water one section of the garden thoroughly each day rather than a little everywhere. Check plants in pots more often, especially in hot weather.
Spring - early-mid · Planting
Divide when too large
The plant can be divided if it becomes too large or another plant is required. This may involve physically dividing the clump in two, removing offsets or small bulbs or dividing rhizomes. The new plants can be grown in pots or planted in the ground.
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