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 ...

The plants are usually about 2 feet tall, but the woodland tobacco is a giant, growing to about ?4 to 5 feet tall in good soil. Nicotiana mutabilis is another tall flowering tobacco.

Then fellow Master Gardeners Gary Thompson and Noble Hamilton gave me a Nicotiana plant a couple of years ago. That’s when the love affair began.

Floral determination in the terminal bud of the short-day plant Nicotiana tabacum cv. Maryland Mammoth has been investigated. Plants grown continuously in short days flowered after producing. 31.4±1.6 ...