RE: nicotiana
- Subject: RE: nicotiana
- From: S* S*
- Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 08:45:15 -0700
You're not crazy, Nancy, people do advertise sylvestris as fragrant. I
found it purely STINKY myself ;-)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nancy Lowe [n*@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 7:49 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Re: nicotiana
>
>
> Claire said:
>
> >>It is Nicotiana alata that is fragrant. Also this is
> notorious reseeder
> >>and
> >you will have it all your life if once started in the garden.
>
> Aha! So that's what I did wrong! I swear the seed description said
> sylvestris was fragrant, and I was soooo disappointed. I
> wasn't really
> impressed with the flowers, either. They're interesting,
> certainly, but
> there's so much more stem than flower, and they like to flop,
> and attract
> some sort of little black bugs...Some of them did, however,
> winter over, and
> they spread quite a bit of seed.
>
> Thanks for the correction, Claire. Now I won't feel guilty
> pulling them up
> to plant the alata!
>
> Oh, and I'm so excited, I wanted to share with ya'll, I now
> am the proud
> owner of a huge hole in my back yard (and corresponding
> mountain of dirt!)
> where my water garden is going. Empty, it looks a whole lot
> bigger than I
> expected. For those of you that looked at our wedding site
> pictures, it's
> going behind the rock wall. I'll post more pictures when it's done.
>
> Nancy Lowe
> Arkansas, zone 7
>
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