Nicotiana or Woodland Tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris)

Nicotiana sylvestris is a species of the genus Nicotiana, known by the common names woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, and South American tobacco.

But nicotianas can't seem to do any better than flowering tobacco.

And don't forget Nicotiana alata, the white flowering tobacco, which smells like jasmine.

At the top of this list is the popular flower impatiens; others include flowering tobacco, coleus and begonias.

Those that prefer light include dimorphotheca, cosmos, mimulus, flowering tobacco, stock, gerbera and wishbone flower.

Nicotiana x sanderae Is the most common of the Nicotiana or "flowering tobacco" plants to be found and sold in the United Kingdom.

Nicotiana sylvestris is a species of the genus Nicotiana, known by the common names woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, and South American tobacco.

A member of the nightshade family, like tomatoes and eggplants and petunias, it is also kin to other flowering tobaccos, but shorter ones that offer no drama or nobility.

Tuesday at 7 P.M. a display and lecture will cover annuals not often seen in suburban gardens, among them flowering tobacco, coreopsis and other plants chosen for color and resistance to pests and diseases.

You'd never know it from the modern cultivars, which lost fragrance when they were bred to stay open during the day, but old-fashioned flowering tobacco (Nicotiana alata) has a very strong night perfume, and so does its much taller, architecturally splendid cousin, N. sylvestris.

In early spring, the beds are full of tender volunteers that he allows in the garden for their spontaneity - the self-seeded annuals of wild arugula, Verbena bonariensis, a green flowering tobacco called Nicotiana langsdorffii and Kochia scoparia, which has narrow, threadlike, celery-green leaves.

Plants like nasturtiums and larkspur, which resent transplanting, have somewhat faded from view, and plants that will not bloom while small and stuffed into market packs, like the wonderful flowering tobacco Nicotiana sylvestris, are seldom sold in garden centers because they call for patient waiting, another lost art on these shores.

Nicotiana sylvestris is a species of the genus Nicotiana, known by the common names woodland tobacco, flowering tobacco, and South American tobacco.

Her hand reached for the last two, before I could say: "Nicotiana sylvestris.

That comical four-footer, Nicotiana sylvestris, was also wandering about, like some kind of circus clown brought in to jolly up the crowd.

Nicotiana or Woodland Tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris)

"Oh, the Little Fingers eggplants and the yellow-pear cherry tomatoes, the Dutch lavatera, the Chinese forget-me-nots, the old-fashioned agrostemma, the English lavender Munstead, the Sunshine giant zinnias, the Green Comet broccoli, the nicotiana Sylvestris . . ." The silence on the other end is deafening.