Nicotiana langsdorfii

Seeds for N. langsdorfii were offered in the NARGS (North American Rock
Garden Society) Seedlist for 1997/98 (and probably in earlier years).
Someone in the Potomac Valley Chapter of the NARGS brought some seedlings
(undoubtedly grown from NARGS seeds) to one of our two annual plant
exchanges in May 1996 and a plant grew very nicely for me, to almost two
feet, with handsome out-facing (not drooping) bright lime-green flowers.  To
my surprise, it reappeared in 1997, and I realized that it could be hardy
here in the Washington DC area.  I gave a plant to Mike Bordelon, our
chapter chair, and he harvested seed from it, and grew it successfully also.
I planted it in several places in the garden for 1998, in all of which it
throve.

Unfortunately, we had a mild winter this past season, and none of my plants
appeared this year.  Go figure.  I don't know about Mike's.  But it is well
worth growing even as an annual, in my opinion, and I urge you to try it.
Watch the NARGS Seedlist (www.nargs.org/) and when N. langsdorfii next
appears on it join up and order some seed.  The Seedlist has between five
and six thousand different kinds of seed every year, so you don't have to
wait till N. langsdorfii appears to join and participate in the orgy of
variety that your garden will experience as a result of your membership.
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Harry

>Date: Thu, 15 Jul 1999 10:04:19 -0400
>From: lowery@teamzeon.com
>Subject: Nicotiania langsdorfii
>
>Valerie Lowery@ZEON
>07/15/99 10:04 AM
>
>Joanie,
>
>I don't think it would be too difficult, but I never tried it.  There's
>always so much that I want to try and I only have so much room under the
>lights for seed starting.  I wish that I could find plants instead.
>
>I keep invisioning it behind hot pink phlox with some purple campanula.
>Perhaps it would look as well with white oriental lilies and white liatris.
>
>Has anyone out there attempted to grow the above-mentioned annual?  It is a
>green-flowered tobacco.  A reference book says the following:  "airy sprays
>of chartreuse bells on wiry stems above refined, narrow leaves make this
>plant a beautiful garden novelty.  Inside each bell are surprising blue
>anthers.  Hummingbirds are very fond of the flowers.  The plant blooms from
>early summer to frost and has long-lasting flowers when cut.  Grows 3-4
>feet tall and may reach 5 feet.  Light shade is best, but full sun if
>humid.  Needs fertile, well-drained soil; moderate moisture."
>
>Val in KY\zone 6a
>
>




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