Nicotiana Sylvestris in Flower

nicotiana sylvestris

I love letting the perennial Nicotiana Sylvestris plants self seed throughout the garden. If I don't like their position, they're very easy to remove - I've had to move them from the Dog-Path Garden paths.

The imaginatively named Middle Path (which separates Middle Garden from the Dog-Path Garden) had serious problems for a few years, and had to be ruthlessly reclaimed. It became completely submerged under these huge Nicotianas, acquiring legendary status as one of the fabled Lost Paths of Mooseygan.

Update - 2010

This goes on my late winter 'to-do' list. How about a deliberate planting of these beautiful flowering plants in the back of the Dog-Path Garden, amongst the rhododendrons? Please, please, please? Even if it takes a year to sow the seed and wait for the plants...