Bigfruit Evening Primrose
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Delivery and Shipping
Delivery and Shipping
Shipping
To obtain a more accurate shipment time-frame, simply enter your zip code in the “Find Your Growing Zone” box to the right. Our plants are grown all over the country and lead time on items may be different because of this. Once your order is placed, you will also receive the specific shipment time-frame information as part of your order confirmation. Once an item ships, you will receive shipment notification and tracking numbers, so you can follow along while your plant travels to your doorstep. We use FedEx, UPS, or USPS at our discretion.
Due to winter weather we have put a hold on shipping to the areas shown below in grey. You can still order now and we will ship the plant to you during an appropriate time for your zone.
Standard Shipping Rates
At Nature Hills we handle, package and ship the products you order with the utmost care to ensure healthy delivery. Shipping and handling charges are calculated based on the tables below. Please note that some items include an additional handling surcharge, these will be noted on the item's product page.
| From | To | S&H |
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| $0 | $19.99 | $24.99 |
| $20 | $49.99 | $29.99 |
| $50 | $69.99 | $34.99 |
| $70 | $99.99 | $39.99 |
| $100 | $129.99 | $44.99 |
| $130 | $149.99 | $48.99 |
| $150 | $150+ | Approx 28% |
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Buying Options for Plants
Nature Hills sells a large variety of plants with several options available. Plants are offered in both potted containers and as dormant bare root without soil. Here is a helpful resource to understand your options as you create a beautiful landscape with help from Nature Hills.
Ever wonder what a larger plant will mean for your landscape? Container Sizes are really all about the age of the plant!
Seasonally, Nature Hills offers hand selected, high quality bare root trees, shrubs and perennials. Bare root plants are sold by height from the top of the root system to the top of the plant. Plants may be taller than the height minimums.
- Popular sizes of select trees are 1 foot, 2 feet, 3 feet, etc.
- Popular sizes of select bare root plants is 1 foot, 18 inches, etc.
Nature Hills Container Size by Volume
Keep in mind, specific varieties and different growing conditions can affect the rate at which plants grow. Variations in size may occur.
| Young Plants to 18 Months | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| 2"x2"x3" | Ranges from | .18 to .21 dry quarts / .198 to .23 dry liters in volume |
| 4.5" Container | Equal to | .65 dry quart / .72 dry liter in volume |
| Sprinter Pot | Equal to | .63 dry quart / .69 dry liter in volume |
| 4" Container | Ranges from | .31 to .87 / .35 to .96 dry liter in volume |
| 6" Container | Equal to | 1.4 dry quarts / 1.59 dry liters in volume |
| 1 Quart | Equal to | 1 dry quart / 1.1 dry liter in volume |
| 5.5" Container | Equal to | 1.89 of a dry quart / 2.08 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x5" | Ranges from | .8 to 1.1 dry quarts / .88 to 1.2 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x6" | Ranges from | 1.0 to 1.3 dry quarts / 1.1 to 1.41 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x9" | Ranges from | 1.1 to 2.1 dry quarts / 1.2 to 2.3 dry liters in volume |
| 4"x4"x10" | Ranges from | 1.7 to 2.3 dry quart / 1.87 to 2.53 dry liters in volume |
| Plants 18 Months - 2.5 Years Old | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| 2 Quart | Equal to | 2 dry quarts / 2.2 dry liters in volume |
| #1 Container | Ranges from | 2.26 to 3.73 dry quarts / 2.49 to 4.11 dry liters in volume |
| 5"x5"x12" | Equal to | 3.5 to 4.3 dry quarts / 3.85 to 4.74 dry liters in volume |
| Plants 2 - 4 Years Old | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| #2 Container | Ranges from | 1.19 to 1.76 dry gallons / 5.24 to 7.75 dry liters in volume |
| #3 Container | Ranges from | 2.32 to 2.76 dry gallons / 10.22 to 12.16 dry liters in volume |
| Plants 3 - 5 Years Old | ||
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| Size | Volume | |
| #5 Container | Ranges from | 2.92 to 4.62 dry gallons / 12.86 to 20.35 dry liters in volume |
| #6 Container | Ranges from | 5.25 to 6.01 dry gallons / 23.12 to 26.42 dry liters in volume |
| #7 Container | Ranges from | 5.98 to 6.08 dry gallons / 26.34 to 26.78 dry liters in volume |
Plant Highlights
Bigfruit Evening Primrose highlights at a glance!
Plant Highlights
Plant Highlights
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Brand
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Botanical Name
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Growing Zones
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Mature Height
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Mature Spread
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Sun ExposureFull Sun
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Moisture
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Soil
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Growth RateMedium
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Flower Color
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Fall Color
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Pollinator Friendly
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Fragrant
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Pruning Time
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Bloom PeriodSummer
Growing Zones 3-7
Gorgeous living drops of sunshine, the Bigfruit Evening Primrose (Oenothera macrocarpa) features four big fluttering petals in the most delicious lemon yellow that wave atop a low-growing mat of airy fine-textured gray-green foliage! Lasting a single evening each, the scented blooms keep returning for a long-lasting display each spring.
Native Big-Fruit Primrose can be sometimes upright, but usually trailing or carpet-forming. These are popular pollinator plants, especially for Hawk/Hummingbird/Sphinx Moths and other evening butterflies, moths, and beneficial insects! The flowers can keep reblooming throughout the growing season until August in some areas!
Evening-Primrose are hardy little native perennial wildflowers that go by many names, including Ozark Sundrops, Fluttermill, and Missouri Evening Primrose. Hardy throughout USDA growing zones 3 through 7 and forming polite colonies of sunny yellow carpets 6-12 in height and 12-18 inches wide.
Planting and Application:
These wildflowers are often seen growing throughout sunny meadows and prairie edges, partially shaded glades & bluffs, roadsides, and creeping along hillsides. So they do remarkably well as low-growing groundcovers and garden fillers! Plant as meandering edging and facer plants to add a touch of sunshine to garden transition areas, or just let Primrose run freely throughout a sunny swath of landscape.
Use in Rock Gardens, Pollinator Borders, Moon Gardens, or as spillers in containers. Bigfruit Primrose looks great rambling over the tops of retaining walls, along the fronts of sunny, Xeric gardens, and in areas with poor soil. Happily rambling along the dappled shade areas along mixed shrub gardens, around larger perennials, and beneath a tree-lined understory.
- Bright Four-Petalled Yellow Blooms
- Many Blooms Spring Til Fall - Each Lasts One Evening
- Self-Sowing, Spreading Native Perennials
- Pollinator-Friendly Xeric Plants
- Borders & Edging, Low Garden Filler & Long-Lasting Native Color
#ProPlantTips for Care:
Evening Primrose requires full sun and handles some partial shade, especially those in hotter climates and in drought-prone conditions. Oenothera needs a good drainage site, handling sandy and rocky soil with ease. Water these herbaceous perennials regularly during their first year in the ground, but once established, Primrose can be very drought-tolerant. Prune back the plants in the late fall or winter. Evening Primrose are fairly deer resistant and are seldom damaged unless desperate.
- Full Sun & Partial Shade
- Well-Drained Soil - Highly Adaptable
- Moderate to Low Moisture Needs
- Prune Late Autumn/Winter
- Deer Resistant Native
Bright and colorful summer-long beauty, the Bigfruit Evening Primrose is just the hardy native your landscape needs! Easy care and fuss-free, order low-maintenance perennials from Nature Hills today!
