Nicotiana 'Avalon Lime'
By Majeekahead
- 7 Aug, 2008
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Are they the same as N.sylvestris, Lori? I'm growing these for the first time this year but they aren't in flower yet.
8 Aug, 2008
to be honest ladies your gues is as good as mine, it is only the lonely, i rescued it for B & Q the other day it was all bedraggled, dry as a bone, in the reduced shelf - i think it was 50P. so i gave it some tlc and a good long drink and he come back lovely for me. i doubt it is one of the tall varietys as it is only about 18" at the moment and seems to have quite a compact habit.
9 Aug, 2008
Hi... No..No...No..Yes. Only the Lonely is definitely the common name growers have given for the nicotiana sylvestris over here!! It is a lovely plant Spritzhenry and it has a wonderful perfume that seems more pronounced in the cool of the evening... a bit prone to aphids...sap is quite sticky. I'm sure too that the lovely little limeys that you have Majeeka are the dwarf var.. they have a pretty scent too but not as nice as the sylvestris...their colour makes up for that!... you got a wonderful bargain... I just found festuca glauca in 4" pots for 59cents...and thought I had done well...
9 Aug, 2008
LOL, oh Lori, silly me i thought when you said 'only the lonely' that you were referring to the fact that i only have one! lol which is why i said it was, did'nt realise that was a comon name for it! i have always know it as a tobaco plant! lol and yes i think you did get a bargain. Festuca glauca is a lovely plant, i had 5 of them in a mass planting last year and they were great. they did'nt flower, but this year after flowering they went all leggy and brown so i unfortuantely had to dig them out. i think they are maybe a biannual, rather than a perennal but defo worth every cent of the price you paid.
10 Aug, 2008
Too bad you had to dig them, mine started like that too...but I have five clumps that I've had for three years... and each year I comb through them to remove the dead stuff and give them a haircut when they put up the seed heads...
13 Aug, 2008
the problem was with mine there would have been nothing left after combing through, - it was all brown. never mind i planted a beautiful Heucchera in its place, and to be honest it does look better than the Festuca, so everything for a reason!
13 Aug, 2008
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I like nicotiana for the scent.... terrific flowers though... have you seen/grown "Only the Lonely"? it's the tall white flowered tobacco... I've seen a bed of those plants that were almost 7 feet tall...and blooming their heads off!! lovely background plant for a border.
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