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Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 04:53 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

This year I have grown from seed Nicotiana sylvestris and N. x sanderae 'Lime Green' and 'Perfume deep Purple'.

Lime Green grows this huge.


N. sylvestris are growing in many borders. Here in front of our terrace. In the front also 'Perfume deep Purple'.

Papula - Southern Finland, Helsinki area, Zone ""USDA 4-5""
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Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 06:53 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Your flowers are beautiful Papula. So far my luck with this flower has been poor.

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Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 09:03 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Your nicotiana is beautiful! I have it in my garden every summer.

Starzgarden - Michigan, Zone "five"
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Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 04:11 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Plantynut wrote on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 06:53 am:

So far my luck with this flower has been poor.


I'm afraid I've had the same luck as Arlene. When I grow it, the plants don't seem to grow much, and I never get that scent they're so famous for.

You have some beauties, Marjatta!

Lovinlife - Utah, Zone "5"
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Posted on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 04:28 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Beautiful pictures, Marjatta! I can't even imagine how wonderful that must smell.

Lovinlife wrote on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 04:11 pm:

When I grow it, the plants don't seem to grow much, and I never get that scent they're so famous for.

If yours are getting to the point where you can say that they don't get that famous scent, then yours are growing a whole lot more than mine are. Mine (N. sylvestris) are still plastered flat to the ground, like first-year Foxgloves. I'm beginning to wonder what was REALLY in that packet of Nicotiana seeds I bought. I am considering overwintering some of the plants to see what they will do next year.

Heirloomgardens - Massachusetts, Zone "5b"
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Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 01:08 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I have had terrible luck with nicotiana as well. I think they have bred the life out of the plants! My mother in law use to have a huge fragrant pink specimen and I always strive to find one like that but instead I end up with little pygmy plants, with no scent that dry up and wither away by mid summer. Yours are scrumptious Papula.

Suzyqt1968 - Washington, Zone "7-8"
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Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 01:52 am EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Marjatta your Nicotiana's are beautiful. I have the lime green and white which self seed all over in my yard. When I walk the garden in the evening the scent is intoxicating. I love these flowers !!

I've never seen the purple though. It's really pretty. Gotta keep an eye out for them.

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Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 07:50 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Heirloomgardens wrote on Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 04:28 pm:

Mine (N. sylvestris) are still plastered flat to the ground, like first-year Foxgloves.



Or like verbascum. It is how they start. They are minuscule when they begin for a while. I have to start mine early inside under lights and then transplant them into the ground ASAP in order to see N. sylvestris bloom before frost. Self sowers never make it to flower.
Marjatta, how did you start yours? They look great.

Loretta - NJ, Zone "6"
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Posted on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 08:17 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

Loretta wrote on Wednesday, August 15, 2007 - 07:50 pm:

I have to start mine early inside under lights and then transplant them into the ground ASAP in order to see N. sylvestris bloom before frost.

Thanks, that is good to know. I guess I will be bringing mine in for the winter then because they certainly don't look like they're going to beat the frost. What a disappointment!

Heirloomgardens - Massachusetts, Zone "5b"
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Posted on Friday, August 17, 2007 - 02:08 pm EST :   Last Buddysize PhotosCopy highlighted text to new message Edit Post Delete Post Print Post

I started to grow my Nicotianas inside in March. Take care not to plant them outside until spring frosts are over. They are easy to grow from seed, plants are strong. To my experience they seem to like good manure - horsepower that is. In those borders where the soil is strong they grow double the size.

btw from my Lime Green seed pack I got two different sorts. The more green ones do not have any scent, the lighter ones have. I love these all!

Papula - Southern Finland, Helsinki area, Zone ""USDA 4-5""

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