An interesting wild flower :My Actifit Report Card: June 7 2026
While out and about today I spotted a familiar wild flower that appears randomly rather like the poppy plant.
It is called the evening primrose. The name gives a clue to why it is called this. The flowers open in the early evening and look beautiful, lasting most of the next day before fading away, giving rise to the next layer of flowers and so on.
The plant is not much to look at, being tall and the leaves are thin. But the flowers are so delicate looking with delicate yellow petals.
My grandfather had these plants appear on his well kept flower beds. He was impressed by them and let them grow back every year after. The plants are annuals and die off when the flowers have finished, so need to re-seed themselves.
My step count is rubbish today as I had a lot of driving to do, including getting stuck in a traffic jam caused by a farm open day. This was unforeseen and unfortunately exactly opposite my destination. Luckily, we were very early setting off so were not late for the appointment. 😅
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Beautiful wildflower, my friend. I don’t think I’ve ever seen this before.
Being annuals, they must be come back from seed fairly easily!😇
Here in a Pacific Northwest we have problems growing flowers because of slugs….. They tend to eat everything!
Nice to always read your @actifit post!👍😊
Thanks, I always feel a little uncomfortable when not achieving the 5k steps but it happens sometimes 🤷.
Ah slugs, yes, they can be a real problem in some areas. They always seem to go for our best plants and flowers 😫.
Very true my friend............ one of my favorites is Icelandic and oriental poppies, and the slugs just eat them, no matter what we put down to stop them!😳