Q: My son gave me a plant called evening primrose this past spring. He got it from a neighbor. It blooms yellow over about 6 weeks, but each flower only lasts one evening and then dies. Hummingbird ...

If you've got a February birthday or know someone born in this winter month, you have your pick of some beautiful birth flowers (see what we did there?). From the gorgeous iris to the pretty primrose, ...

Cape primrose (Streptocarpus saxorum) is an easy-to-grow indoor flowering plant that could be the next gorgeous addition to your indoor garden. While the Cape primrose is just one of the many ...

Growing time-lapse of an evening primrose plant (Oenothera biennis) from a seed to blooms. We used a 12-inch pot to plant ...

I spotted the first flush of wild primroses flowering in nearby woods a few weeks ago. Speckled along the edges of a steep, damp bank that sits beneath the dappled shade of beech trees, their blooms ...

JUST AS the first pale primrose flowers are showing in hedgerows and woodlands, the garden primroses and their showy cousins, the polyanthus, are sparkling in gardens. Some of these are very old forms ...

On Aug. 18, I was slowly cruising an Ottawa County rural lane bordering Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge encompasses about 7,000 acres along the shore of Lake Erie, east of Toledo. Birds ...

IT LOOKS like the humble primrose is having a golden age of revival at the moment. The garden centres are full of the most beautiful primroses and polyanthus as new varieties are produced, and some ...

I had hiked from my campsite to the rim of the Picketwire Canyon to watch the canyon fill with shadows and the sky fill with stars. Walking back in the dark, I noticed flowers that had not been open ...

1. The Queen’s primrose wreath bore a note saying “his favourite flower” but it has never been clear whether she meant Disraeli’s favourite flower or her late husband Prince Albert’s. 2. Every year on ...