Flowering tobacco is easy to grow and comes in a variety of colors with showy, perfumed blossoms. FLOWERING TOBACCO (NICOTIANA) ARE VERSATILE ornamental annual garden flowers for both sun and ...

The plants’ colors range from reds and pinks to white, yellow, purple, and bicolored. Many open flowers in the evenings and are known to release a sweet fragrance.

NICOTANIA: Related to tobacco, it is commonly called flowering tobacco. It produces a rosette of hairy, medium-green leaves with taller stems loosely adorned with flaring five-petaled bells.

Most smoking tobacco, however, is derived from Nicotiana ‘tabacum’, which is not grown for its flowers. The best type for gardeners is the 2-ft tall Nicotiana ‘sylvestris’—an easy-going ...

Butterflies and moths are welcome visitors to many plant species. Plants attract insect pollinators with the colors, forms, nectars and scents of their flowers to ensure fertilization and ...