(Flowering Tobacco)

With evening-scented flowers in a range of colors, the dwarf Hummingbird Series of flowering tobacco are a collection of robust plants that are slightly earlier flowering! These hybrid tender perennials that are best grown as annual bedding plants will tolerate light winter frosts and may behave as short-lived, semi-evergreen perennials if trimmed back in autumn after flowering wanes.

The oblong lance-like leaves are an attractive emerald green. In summer's warmth, the rosette of leaves sends...

(Flowering Tobacco)

With evening-scented flowers in a range of colors, the semi-dwarf Nicki Series of flowering tobacco are a collection of vigorous and free flowering plants! These hybrid tender perennials that are best grown as annual bedding plants will tolerate light winter frosts and may behave as short-lived, semi-evergreen perennials if trimmed back in autumn after flowering wanes.

The oblong lance-like leaves are an attractive emerald green. In summer's warmth, the rosette of leaves sends up a lightly branched...

(Flowering Tobacco)

With evening-scented flowers in a range of colors, the cute Saratoga Series of flowering tobacco are a collection of tidy dwarf-sized and densely flowering plants that even tolerate considerable shade! These hybrid tender perennials that are best grown as annual bedding plants will tolerate light winter frosts and may behave as short-lived, semi-evergreen perennials if trimmed back in autumn after flowering wanes.

The oblong leaves are an attractive emerald green. In summer's warmth, the rosette...

(Flowering Tobacco, Jasmine Flowering Tobacco, Night Flowering Tobacco)

This species, commonly known as jasmine flowering tobacco, is a tall, coarse, tender perennial from South America, which is almost always grown as a warm season annual. It’s most prized for its flowers that are highly fragrant at night yet remain fresh-looking in full sun. These are pollinated by moths, hence the night fragrance.

The plant has a low rosette of large hairy resinous leaves, which gives rise to tall stems covered with leaves that diminish in size from bottom to top. The yellow-green...

(Flowering Tobacco)

With triangular, sticky-and-hairy leaves of a bluish medium green, Langsdorff tobacco is revered for its chameleon-like green flowers that are beautifully fragrant. An annual herb from Brazil, this species attracts hummingbirds and long-tongued moths for pollination and later readily self-sows in the garden.

Once soil is warm, seeds sprout and quickly become a basal cluster of oval to almost wedge-like foliage. Tall, branching stems rise above the leaves and bear many tubular flowers of an apple...

(Aztec Tobacco)

A handsome plant unto its own, wild tobacco has nicely formed foliage that is the base for the summertime flowers that are an interesting and beautiful pale yellowy green. A short-lived tender perennial that is easily grown as an annual, this plant is a native to central South America, most likely Ecuador to Bolivia. It has many of the same psychoactive qualities of tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum), but is much less used economically today although it is a comparable substitute and also once...

(Woodland Flowering Tobacco)

A statuesque tender perennial with large leaves and tower flower stems lined with drooping, long white tubular blossoms that are lovingly fragrant, the woodland flowering tobacco is one of the most elegant plants for a cottage or evening garden. This tender perennial that readily self-sows is native to Argentina; it is a very short-lived perennial that is usually best cultured as an annual regardless of climate.

The large, oval leaves form a basal clump and have an attractive coarse texture....

(Smoking Tobacco)

Large, coarse leaves are the cash-producing gems of tobacco, but the light pink tubular flowers are fragrant and beautiful when seen atop the tall plants in summertime. A short-lived perennial or frost-tender annual native to Tropical America, tobacco is one of the most widely used, legal but regulated psychoactive drugs in the world along with alcohol and caffeine. Native Americans revered and ate, smoked and chewed tobacco for several centuries prior to Columbus' visit.

Sprouting when soils...

(Cupflower)

With fine green foliage, the narrow-leaved cupflower produces scores of small cup-like flowers of blue-lavender with yellow throats from summer to frost. A tender perennial native to Argentina, it is widely cultivated as an annual for a wide array of garden uses that maximizes its pretty blossom display. Although heat tolerant, flowering subsides if summertime heat is too intense.

This bright green plant is an upright mounding plant, densely branched with fine stems. The stiff leaves are short...

(Cupflower)

With fine green foliage, the narrow-leaved cupflower produces scores of small cup-like deep blue-violet flowers with yellow throats from summer to frost. A tender perennial native to Argentina, it is widely cultivated as an annual for a wide array of garden uses that maximizes its pretty blossom display. Although heat tolerant, flowering subsides if summertime heat is too intense.

Variety violacea has bright green foliage is an upright mounding plant, densely branched with fine stems....