A scented plant for an informal, cottage or wildflower garden, with large yellow, Orange, Pink, Ehite flowers from June to September.  This plant forms a rosette of leaves in the first year, and stems of flowers in the second season.  Flowers unfurl on the afternoon and evening when the scent is strongest.  Plants grow to a height of 50-150cm.  Bees love the flowers.  These are traditional medicinal plants.

Common Evening Primrose grows best in full sun to part shade and well-drained, poor to moderately fertile soil.  Plants self-seed in good conditions.

Sow in autumn or spring/early summer.  Sow in autumn in a cold frame or spring/early summer indoors.  Germination takes 2-3 weeks and can be erratic, so sow more than you need.