Nicandra Species, Apple of Peru, Shoofly Plant, Snake Tomato

I like this plant very much and always have a few around. Yes, it reseeds but nowhere the extent of things like Sweet Annie or ragweed. ...Read More Shoo-Fly doesn't make extensive roots so weeding out unwanted plants is easy.

In my experience I get better blooms from plants that are grown 'hard.' Plants in beds or planters where they get regular watering and/or fertilizer tend to get big and bushy without a lot of flowers.

Very pretty plant. I am growing the variegated leaf variety known as Splash.

'Apple of Peru' has caught my attention because it has suddenly appeared out of the blue in the garden under the bird bath. So guess wher...Read Moree the seeds came from! There are twelve small plants so far looking very healthy well into our autumn. Not knowing what they were at first, I thought I'd let them grow to see what they turned into, and am pleasantly surprised with the lovely little blue flower on one of the plants. Looking forward to watching their growth.

I was surprised by how large and bushy this plant became in just a few weeks from a scrawny seedling to - for an annual - a monster.
...Read More> This seems, perhaps best regarded as a foliage plant, as, compared with the leaves, the flowers are small and not very striking. I was rather disappointed in this regard.
It's only invasive if you let it go to seed...