Generally considered an easy-to-grow flower, getting snapdragons to germinate can be tricky. Having grown them for sale as cut flowers, I have found that snapdragons are best sown in the fall or early ...

Nicotiana alata grandiflora. Jasmine tobacco is the standard white flowering tobacco. A robust plant, it has a multitude of large white flowers and is about 3 feet tall with large green leaves.

Flowering tobacco, Nicotiana attenuata, blooming at the Virginia Zoo. A popular, easy to grow ornamental that has a long history of use. This week, I ran into an old flower friend. On top of being … ...

Like other flowering tobacco plants, N. sylvestris is a perennial species that's usually treated like an annual. In Florida, however, plants may survive year-to-year, and some kinds can reseed.

Answer: The genus Nicotiana (ni-co-she-AA-nah), with more than 60 species of flowering plants in nature, is also known as the flowering tobaccos. They are in the Solanaceae (nightshade) family.

Flowering tobacco and 4-o’clocks open in the late afternoon or early evening and remain open until the next morning. At dusk, the light-colored flowers seem to glow.

Flowering Tobacco (Nicotiana sylvestris; N. alata): Quite striking in the night garden, these self-seeding annuals have tubular, sweetly scented white flowers that become intensely fragrant at night.

Once I can sell you on trying flowering tobacco one time, you’ll be the same advocate for them that I am. And you, too, will wonder what’s taken us so long to catch on.