Flowering Tobacco
October 2011
Could you please identify this plant for me? It comes up with beautiful white flowers
that are fragrant. It seems to just come up wherever it pleases. It has large leaves
and dies back every year. The other plant has thick fleshy leaves and has been in
my garden for years. It blooms about this time every year with pink flowers. Thanks
for your help.
The white flowering plant is an old-fashioned flowering tobacco - Nicotiana sylvestris. It is a short-lived perennial but it also reseeds itself, which can be the reason
it comes up in other areas of the garden. The pink flowering plant is a Sedum spectabile, often called Autumn Joy after a very popular variety of the plant. It is a long
lived perennial succulent that thrives in dry conditions.
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