Re: [SG] petunias and Nicotiana sylvestris

In a message dated 5/22/99 1:14:47 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
Cidjohnson@AOL.COM writes:

<<
<<< Where HAVE you found it? >>>

I found small plants in individual containers in specialty nurseries in
Massachusetts.  Some of the catalogs handle petunia integrifolia but if you
hunt around in nurseries you may find it.  We are fortunate to find such
diversity these days.


 <<<Also what is the annual that is called Million
 Bells (or something like that).>>>

I have little experience with Million Bells.  I bought two last year and did
not find they produced all summer.  I replaced them with something else.  I
used them in a pot.  Maybe I did not find the right requirements for the
plant.


<<<Btw, thanks again for the poppy seeds you sent last spring.  I now have a
 "million" little seedlings around...such a pretty bluish color.  How do you
 manage so many seedlings?  Do you just pull out most of them and leave a
few?>>>

Those are opium poppies (papaver somniferum), the species plant.  Yes, I use
a garden knife which looks just like a cheap linolium knife and scrape away
tons of them.  Left two or three to a group the will become larger with more
flowers.  Those poppies bloom all over my garden, everywhere, sun and shade.
The shadier locations bloom later extending the season.  Everyone asks what
they are.


<<<  Also, I never did get any Nicotiana sylvestris to come up from the seed
you
 sent.  So maybe I didn't know what the seedling looked like and I pulled them
 out?? (for shame).>>

They look a bit weedy when first up.  Cindy, the nicotiana germinates in late
June here so you may see some yet.  Look for n. alata, n. sylvestris.  Those
two are fragrant and repeat true to seed. Named plants are hybrids and you
will not get the fragrant plants.  Sylvestris is the tall one with huge
leaves.  I have some perennial nicotiana here in zone 4.  The seeds fell into
the foundation on heated garage wall. The plants return every year and bloom
in June.  Seeded plants bloom in August.
The advantage of the hybrid is that the blossom stays open all day.  The
species open around four in the afternoon and perfume the garden all night.

We finally have a full blown spring here.  We have had over three inches of
rain and the garden is "busting out all over".

Claire Peplowski
East Nassau, NY
z4


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