Sensation Mix Flowering Tobacco
Price: $3.49
SKU: 1001261Sensation Mix Flowering Tobacco
Nicotiana alata
This beautiful, ornamental flowering tobacco has fragrant, trumpet-shaped flowers in mixed shades of carmine, pink, purple and white. It is attractive to pollinating insects and hummingbirds. The plants grow eighteen to thirty-six inches tall and are ideal for cottage, fragrant and cut flower gardens. Thrives in a location with moist, well-drained soil and that receives partial shade to full sun.
This tender annual, when sown in the spring, blooms in the summer. Like other tobacco species, this one lends itself to getting an early start on the season by starting seeds indoors in pots about six weeks prior to the last expected frost date for the spring. Each packet contains 0.1 gram, which is hundreds of seeds.
Once tiny seedlings emerge, you can pick them out one by one and move them into individual cells. Very lightly fertilize and never allow the potting soil to dry out. Within 6 weeks it'll be ready to plant in the garden. Wait until all risk of frost is over before planting outdoors.
For additional information, please have a look at our more detailed guide with photos.
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By Eric (Hickory, NC) on January 7, 2025
Year 1, plants did well, flowered heavily on moderate-sized plants. Year 2, new plants came up as volunteer seeds from previous year, some plants overwintered and gave an early start, ended up blooming for most of the warm season. Year 3, many plants overwintered. Massive growth and an absolute riot of blooms. The aroma on a summer early evening is enough to make you return to your garden over and over again. Flowers open in the morning and evening, closing somewhat during the heat of the day, but they are always buzzing with skippers, moths, butterflies, bees, and hummingbirds. Pairs really nicely with tall zinnias. Now that year 4 is approaching, the bed has gotten easier to weed, as the Nicotiana does a good job suppressing weeds. I know they are considered tender perennials, but I piled compost very high on the bed in year one, and the soil is fertile and deep, allowing the roots to survive two winters so far. Even if the plants die, self sowing seeds will keep this bed going. I planned for one year of flowers, but have gotten so much more
By Tigerbikes (NJ, USA) on July 22, 2024
Wow! Not only the best selection with great information on the website, Jon personally helped me with my first round of germination / seedlings to a great success. I highly recommend Victory Seeds.
By Amy Bowman on October 12, 2018
I grew these for the first time this year and plan on growing them from now on. They are a nice mix with other flowers, and, even now in October, they are still going strong!
