Our Flowering Tobacco 'Jasmine' (Nicotiana alata) - 2019
For Mother's Day this year, Nat's Mom gave her a small Flowering Tobacco Jasmine plant that came in a little plastic capsule. There was very little instructions with it other than that it was potentially poisonous (see ASPCA page on it being poisonous to dogs here !). Nat's Mom has given us a few Disneyland Roses ( first one in 2017 and two more in 2018 ) and a couple of hydrangeas , but this is the first annual that she's gifted us. I wasn't sure where to put it, so I ended up sticking it on the side of our house on the southside - near where I put the 2018 Disneyland roses and was planning to do a Belgian Fence. I didn't pay it much attention and didn't even water it consciously. And look at it above: beautifully tall and graceful. But, this isn't just a looker. Nope. It does a couple of things that are interesting. First...it transforms from day to evening. The listing on Select Seeds calls it a "night bloomer" ....