The Friends had a stand at the Dundee Flower & Food Festival from 1-3 September. A great opportunity for members to volunteer to raise awareness of the Garden, the Botanic Garden Endowment Trust, and the Friends. Bob Sutherland from the Garden and his colleagues created a great display, which earned a Silver Gilt Medal certificate.
The Friends of the University of Dundee Botanic Garden is a charity whose aim is to support and promote the development of the Garden
Saturday, 9 September 2017
Sunday, 3 September 2017
Plant of the month September 2017
Nicotiana mutabilis (Tobacco plant)
Family: Solanaceae
Origin: Brazil
Annual
Location: Evolution Garden
Nicotiana mutabilis (Tobacco plant)
Family: Solanaceae
Origin: Brazil
Annual
Location: Evolution Garden
Nicotiana can be annuals,
biennials, perennials or shrubs, with simple, alternate leaves and tubular or
salver-shaped, often fragrant flowers borne in racemes or panicles in summer or
autumn. N. mutabilis is an upright half-hardy annual to 1.5m tall
with a basal rosette of large, oval leaves. In summer, airy clouds of
trumpet-shaped flowers are borne on branching stems changing colour as they age
from white through shades of pink. Good for cut flowers, it grows best in
fertile soil in full sun. All parts of the plant are toxic.
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