Oenothera fruticosa ssp. glauca (tetragona) Highlight Most gardeners who grow camellias

Most gardeners who grow camellias know two of them

an informal foundation planting

and shrugs off heat and drought once established

Where most camellias stand dense and upright

or a sheltered foundation

Oenothera fruticosa ssp. glauca (tetragona) Highlight Most gardeners who grow camelliasSundrops make a gentle joke of their family. Oenothera fruticosa ssp. glauca belongs to the evening primroses, a tribe famous for opening at dusk and closing by mid morning, yet the sundrops break ranks and bloom by day, holding cups of clear, satiny yellow wide open through the sunlit hours of late spring and early summer. The genus name comes from the Greek oinos, wine, and thera, to hunt or seek, an old and disputed reference to a European relative