Nicotiana (Flowering tobacco) Nicotiana langsdorfii with coleus A tiny space in a tightly packed London garden provides a startling mixed border display. Two perennial sedums, the creamy-headed Sedum telephium and the reddish-bronze leaves of Sedum spurium 'Purple Carpet' are surrounded by more temporary plants. The slow, sultry rosettes of Aeonium arboreum 'Atropurpureum' are worth waiting for while purple-leaved 'Dark Opal' basil is so much more effective than raggedy-edged 'Purple Ruffles'. A single spike of the snapdragon 'Black Prince' peeps through the coleus 'Scarlet Poncho', a single pinching creates this spread of shoots. Trailing forward from behind are the pale bells of the dainty Nicotiana langsdorfii. Nicotiana A-Z   ©copyright 1998 Graham Rice. All Rights Reserved. All Images Digitally Watermarked.