nicandra physalodes - GARDEN
Q: What is this growing in my planter of dahlias? - Edye Nye, North Ferrisburgh, Vt. A: What an interesting plant and flower.
Understanding the Context
It's Nicandra physalodes, known simply as Nicandra or apple-of-Peru. It's ... Sometimes you just luck out and stumble onto a plant that turns out to be a winner. That’s what happened when I purchased a seedling shoo-fly plant (Nicandra physalodes) at a rare-plant nursery a few ...
Image Gallery
Key Insights
Once a popular ornamental in gardens, the "shoo-fly plant" (Nicandra) has become modestly naturalized in some places. Dear Helen: Can you tell me what this blue flower is? It has self-sown in my ... On the morning after the election, I ambled up the gentle incline into the back garden, with the intent of capturing a decent photo of the imposing shoo-fly (Nicandra) plants that had volunteered ...