Fireworks Sundrops (Oenothera Fruticosa) – 1 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-9b  Find Your Zone

Plant Type:  Perennial 

Flower Color:  Canary Yellow

Flower Size: 2″

Flowering Period:  Late Spring to Early Summer

Flower Type:  Single, in clusters

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Bronze-tinted Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators, Hummingbirds, Songbirds, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-30F), Deer, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect, Poor Soil, Rabbit, Salt Air

Not to be confused with some counterfeits in the marketplace, this is the real deal: Oenothera fruticosa ‘Fireworks’, commonly known as Fireworks Sundrops, a version of our North American native Sundrops, sporting deep red stems, bronze-tinted deep green foliage, and red buds all over that open to an explosion of brilliant canary yellow flowers. Overall, the plant has a vigorous and sprawling habit and puts on a spectacular flower show from late spring to early summer in sunny garden borders. Hummingbirds, butterflies and many other beneficial pollinators will appreciate the flowers and songbirds eat the seeds. What seeds the birds don’t get might sprout to form new plants. An added benefit is its evergreen, bright red-green foliage rosette that provides interest during the winter months. Extremely easy to grow from Nova Scotia to Florida and heat, drought and poor soil tolerant. Sure to add cheer to the garden!

Growing 18 inches tall and spreading to 24 inches wide, Fireworks Sundrops is ideal for use as an accent in smaller garden spaces or spotted or massed in sunny woodland borders, perennial gardens, hummingbird gardens, wildflower gardens, and as a border along paths where it serves as a colorful filler plant. Great for naturalizing.

Fireworks Sundrops is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained to dry soil of average to low fertility soil and full to mostly sun. Provide at least 6 hours of direct sun for best flowering. As with many other perennial plants, constantly soggy or wet soils are problematic. Heavy, dense clay soils should be amended with organic matter to improve drainage. Plants can be cut back after flowering in mid summer to encourage a flush of new growth and continued flowering.