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Annual/Biennial or Bedding
Bushy
Flower
Ingestion may cause severe discomfort
old H3 (may need winter protection)
White in Summer
Dark Green in Spring and Summer
1-1.5 metres
0.1-0.5 metres
1-2 years
flowering tobacco
Solanaceae
Nicotiana can be annuals, biennials, perennials or shrubs, with simple, alternate leaves and tubular or salver-shaped, often fragrant flowers borne in racemes or panicles in summer or autumn
N. sylvestris is a branching, upright biennial to 1.5m, with a basal rosette of elliptic dark green leaves to 30cm in length, and a compact panicle of sweetly fragrant, salver-shaped white flowers to 9cm in length in summer
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Grow in fertile, moist but well-drained soil in full sun or partial shade
Propagate by seed
City/Courtyard Gardens, Cottage/Informal Garden or Flower borders and beds
No pruning required
Can get leafhoppers and glasshouse whitefly
May be subject to a virus
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