FLOWERING TOBACCO (NICOTIANA) ARE VERSATILE ornamental annual garden flowers for both sun and shade. They are related to and resemble the smoking type of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) but are a ...

Question: Can you talk about growing Nicotiana? I’ve seen so many new ones offered. Are they hard to grow from seed? Are they poisonous? What is their relationship to smoking tobacco? Answer: The ...

One of my favorite plants in my garden is nicotiana (Nicotiana sylvestris), also known as flowering tobacco. The plants need almost no care and bloom most of the spring, summer and autumn. The flowers ...

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 ...

Nicotiana is a popular enough genus in the garden, and sold widely as bedding at this time of year. But maybe it would be even more popular if gardeners knew how much interesting biology lurked behind ...

The words "tobacco" and "perfume" may seem like a contradiction in terms to the uninitiated, but then again, Nicotiana alata grandiflora has sadly fallen off many gardeners' radars. And that's a shame ...

Night-scented plants are one of the joys of the summer garden. Scents that are almost nonexistent in the day hit you full in the nasal passages come evening, when they do their best to attract ...