Mutabilis Flowering Tobacco

Mutabilis flowering tobacco is a taller, airier plant than its cousin N. alata, with wiry branching stems that hold hundreds of small star-shaped flowers opening white and aging through soft pink to rose — all three shades visible on the plant at once, which is where the name ("mutabilis," changeable) comes from. It reads as a haze of color rather than individual blooms, ideal threaded through a mixed border.

Like other nicotianas it's a tender perennial grown as an annual everywhere outside the tropics, started indoors well ahead of the last frost since seed needs light to germinate and shouldn't be covered. It self-seeds readily where happy and, as a member of the tobacco genus, is rarely browsed by deer or rabbits.