Primrose flower

These 30 best shade-loving plants thrive in low sunlight and add beauty to your garden's darkest spots with colorful annuals, perennials, shrubs, and grasses.

Primroses are wonderful additions to the spring garden. They are firm favorites of gardeners living in cool or temperate climates, and, with their brightly colored flowers, it’s easy to see why!

The primrose is perhaps one of our most loved and familiar native flowers, heralding spring with pretty clusters of pale lemon flowers nestling amongst rosettes of green foliage. Great for naturalising, perfect for shady areas, fast growing. Flowers March-early May. Height 10-20cm (4-8").

Pink evening primrose displays large, elegant pink flower with four petals that makes it look like a goblet, hence it is sometimes called

A single primrose flower photographed in a nearby wood.

Primrose, Primula: "First Flower" It's easy to spot a primula, its rosette of palest yellow flowers the color of early spring sunshine. This is Primula vul

While Evening Primrose flowers (pink ladies, sundrops, snowdrops) are showy and gorgeous, they can often be invasive when planted too closely together. Learn when, how, and where to plant them so they do not sprout in unwanted places.