Flower |
Foliage |
Form |
|
Plant Name |
Nicotiana x sanderae Starship Series |
||
Common Name |
Tobacco plant |
||
Soil |
Chalk or Sand |
||
Sun Aspect |
Full Sun or Part Shade |
||
Soil Moisture |
Moist |
||
Plant Type |
Annual. |
||
Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
18 x 12 (45 x 30) |
||
Foliage |
Dark Green |
||
Flower Colour in Month(s). Fruit |
Starship Series cultivars have good all-weather tolerance with flowers in Red, White, Rose-Pink, Lime-green or Pink in July-September. |
||
Comment |
Erect form. Surface-sow seed at 18 degreees Celsius in Mid-Spring. "This is an annual Tobacco plant that is rarely grown, with favour given over to the taller and more subtle flowered varieties. However, if you wish for a Nicotiana to make a more powerful impact on the garden then X sanderae is the species to grow. Its height ranges from 40-60cm and has the usual sticky mid-green leaves that all Tobacco plants have. This is followed in summer by a splendid array of coloured flowers - all plants of this hybrid tend to be variable, so you will get a blend of red, white, rose-pink or purple flowers. This is excellent for creating a real, fiery impact on a border or large container and this hybrid has sported a few cultivated series:-
"Start off in a seed tray indoors and plant out in borders. Fill a seed tray with good, free-draining, damp, seed compost. Sow seed on the surface of the compost and do not cover as the seeds require light to germinate. Place the seed and tray in a propagator or seal inside a polythene bag and keep at around 21-25C (70-75F) until the seeds germinate. This will take about 14-21 days. Don’t exclude light as this helps germination. When seedlings are large enough to handle, transplant them individually into 7.5cm (3") pots or multi-cell trays. Before planting out, acclimatise the plants to cooler conditions by putting them outside for a few hours a day for a few weeks. Plant out when all risk of frost has gone about 30cm (12") apart." from T & M Worldwide Seeds. Seed available from Greenfingers in the UK. |
||
|
ODDS AND SODS GALLERY PAGES Introduction FOLIAGE COLOUR SHAPE SEED COLOUR BED PICTURES OTHER FLOWER PICTURES |
Odds and Sods Height from Text Border for Odds and Sods Gallery |
||||||
Blue = |
Green= |
Red = |
|||||
Odds and Sods Soil Moisture from Text Background |
|||||||
Wet Soil |
Moist Soil |
Dry Soil |
|||||
Click on plant name in the text box below that photo to change the comparison page to that Plant Description Page. |
|||||||
"Simona and Feruccio" by Madeleine F. Williamson Pires. Can Simona and Feruccio (the flowers) with |
|||||||
Plant Type in the following table is:-
followed by:-
|
|||||||
|
|||||||
ODDS AND SODS INDEX |
|||||||
Odds and Sods Name. |
Flower Colour |
Flowering Months |
Height x Spread in inches (cms) |
Foliage Colour |
Plant Type |
||
A |
|||||||
Violet with Yellow (may be pink, violet/lavender, dark purple/black, or white/near white) florets |
June, July |
10 x 18 |
Mid-Green |
P H |
|||
Purple |
April, May |
2 x 24 |
Mid Green |
P E |
|||
B |
|||||||
Bright White, yellow, pink or red |
June, July, August, September, October |
48 x 12 |
Grey-Green |
An H |
|||
C |
|||||||
Chrysan-themum 'Pennine Digger' and others |
Golden Yellow |
October |
48 x 30 |
Dark Green |
P H |
||
White |
May, June |
5 x 12 |
Mid-Green |
P H |
|||
D |
|||||||
Pale to Deep Rose-Pink |
June |
6 x 72 |
Dark Green above, Grey-Green below |
Sh E |
|||
E |
|||||||
Greenish-Yellow |
April, May, June |
4 x 12 |
Blue-Grey |
P E |
|||
F |
|||||||
White |
June |
6 x 6 |
Bright Green |
P H |
|||
G |
|||||||
White-throated Sky-Blue |
April, May, June, July |
1 x 4 |
Dark Green |
P E |
|||
H |
|||||||
Yellow ray-florets with Brown disc florets |
August, September |
180 x 24 |
Mid to Dark Green |
An |
|||
I |
|||||||
White, lavender, purple, pink, or crimson |
May, June |
8 x 10 |
Mid Green |
An |
|||
Scented Purple, Rose-Pink or White |
July, August, September |
54 x 36 |
Light Green |
An |
|||
J |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
K |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
L |
|||||||
White to light Purple |
May, June, July |
36 x 12 |
Light to Mid Green |
An |
|||
Bright Golden Yellow |
July, August |
24 x 12 |
Mid Green |
An |
|||
M |
|||||||
Morus nigra |
Pale Green |
May, June |
480 x 600 |
Mid Green |
To D |
||
N |
|||||||
Greenish-Yellow |
July, August, September |
60 x 12 |
Dark Green |
An |
|||
Red, White, Rose-Pink or Purple |
July, August, September |
18 x 12 |
Dark Green |
An |
|||
Domino Series cultivars have upward-facing flowers in Red, White, Crimson-Pink, Lime-green, Pink with White-eyes, Purple, Purple with White eyes, Salmon-Pink, or White with Rose-Pink margins |
July, August, September |
18 x 12 |
Dark Green |
An |
|||
Starship Series cultivars have good all-weather tolerance with flowers in Red, White, Rose-Pink, Lime-green or Pink |
July, August, September |
18 x 12 |
Dark Green |
An |
|||
O |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
P |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
Q |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
R |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
S |
|||||||
White |
July |
6 x 12 |
Inch long, dark Green, club-shaped leaves with silvery undersides |
Su E |
|||
TUVWXYZ |
|||||||
|
|
|
|
|
|
||
|
|||||||
|
Site design and content copyright ©January 2007. Page structure amended January 2013. Feet changed to inches (cms) July 2015. Chris Garnons-Williams. |
||||||
|