Primrose was ditch lily
- To: s*@MAELSTROM.STJOHNS.EDU
- Subject: Primrose was ditch lily
- From: N* A* M*
- Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2001 08:03:55 EDT
In a message dated 4/7/01 11:36:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time, ECPep@AOL.COM
writes:
<< Are you sure that this plant is a primrose? Primroses are not
stoloniferous.
>>
Sorry, Claire, have heard this plant called both Missouri primrose and
evening primrose. Just too lazy here to look it up. Correctly, Oenothera
speciosa, showy evening primrose. Size: 1'-2' tall with leaves 1-2" long.
This sprawling plant produces a profusion of 2"wide soft-pink showy flowers
on wiry stems.
It isn't that I don't like the plant but it tends to become infested with an
insect that devours all the leaves and flowers and makes such a mess that I
usually end up ripping every bit of it out by hand just to watch it come back
and go through the whole thing again.
I did find in the same book a plant that I have admired in my garden for
several years now and had no idea what it is. This plant was given to me by
a friend who called it evening primrose. It is in fact P. veris, (cowslip
primrose). This plant blooms after dusk and has the most remarkable
fragrance.
OK this took three books and the thought that all this will be impossible for
me to ever remember.
It is all in the journey.
Narda
SW OH z5
