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In a previous gardening job, I grew woodland tobacco, Nicotiana sylvestris, with its prolific white trumpet-like blooms that ...
Nicotiana is the botanical name for the annual flowering tobacco plant. Most smoking tobacco, however, is derived from Nicotiana ‘tabacum’, which is not grown for its flowers.. The best type ...
I have an experiment going this summer with one of my favorite plants, Nicotiana sylvestris. This particular Nicotiana, from a group of plants sometimes called flowering tobacco, is quite ...
Nicotiana or, Flowering Tobacco as it’s commonly called, is an easy to grow, fragrant annual that is a member of the tobacco family. This is a plant that, despite having a high concentration of ...
Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris; N. alata): Quite striking in the night garden, these self-seeding annuals have tubular, sweetly scented white flowers that become intensely fragrant at night.
Flowerbed of Nicotiana sylvestris, canna, and many-colored coleus. (Kor!An (Корзун Андрей), Wikimedia) ...
Nicotiana sylvestris Woodland tobacco is a giant in the world of flowering tobaccos. With huge, tropical-looking leaves, and robust, statuesque flower stalks, it is an arresting sight day and night.
Perhaps the most stately flowering tobacco is the old-fashioned Nicotiana sylvestris, a South American species that grows 4 to 5 feet tall in full or part-day sun.
Also native to South America, most varieties of Nicotiana (flowering tobacco) boast wonderful evening fragrance. The crown prince is Nicotiana sylvestris.This statuesque annual can reach 4 feet ...
As the sun dips lower and tints the summer-blue sky with shades of tangerine and golden peach, white star-shaped tubular flowers open and release their come-hither fragrance.
… at dusk the dumb white nicotiana awakes and utters her I hereby nominate Nicotiana sylvestris as one of our less-appreciated garden plants. You will sometime times see it called “flowering ...