Jasminum - Plant Encyclopedia Results (Page 4)

Semi-evergreen to deciduous vine. This vine has lots of fragrant white flowers in spring, summer, and fall. Blooms on new growth. Prefers a moist well-drained light soil enriched with organic matter. Drought and pollution tolerant. Jasmine associates nicely with climbing roses, honeysuckle or clematis, but it looks superb grown on its own. Grown in the perfume fields of Southern France, it has good tolerance to a wide range of temperatures and is easily maintained in pots. Cultivars: Aureoviegatum (variegated), Affine (large, white with pink inside). An age old Indian folk treatment, jasmine was used to suppress milk production. Apply fresh jasmine flowers to the breasts. One Indian study matched bromocriptine with the application of jasmine flowers and both treatments were equally effective lactation inhibitors.

This dwarf, slow growing jasmine has leaves very similar to J. parkeri but they are a bit bigger. They start as bright green when young, then turn darker with age. Flowers are pure white, sweetly fragrant. The create dramatic contrast with dark leaves.

Jasmine Mini can be shaped as bonsai or a small compact container specimen. This requires minimal pruning. If left untrimmed, the plant may grow longer vining branches, but even in this case it can be treated as a Dwarf grower and will need only a small trellis.

Blooms in summer.

This is a perfect small plant for fragrant plant collectors who got to the point of lack of space! Great for containers.

A quick-growing vine with glossy, dark green foliage, can be grown on a trellis, used as a ground cover, or planted in a container. Blooms from April to September. The 1 inch wide, white, pinwheel shaped flowers with a fine sweet scent. The variegated form, var. Maculata, has bright leaves dappled lemon-gold, open clusters of quite fragrant white star-like flowers produced irregularly throughout the year. Needs full sun to perform variegation.

Trachelospermum jasminoides, commonly known as star jasmine or Confederate jasmine, is an evergreen woody vine in the Apocynaceae family, native to eastern and southeastern Asia. Despite its common name, it is not a true jasmine and does not belong to the genus Jasminum. The vigorous twining stems carry glossy, leathery, dark green oval leaves, with new growth sometimes tinged bronze or reddish. In late spring and summer, plants produce abundant clusters of intensely fragrant white flowers. Each flower has five spreading, twisted lobes arranged like a small pinwheel or star. Established vines can reach 15-20 ft and form a dense evergreen covering on supports.

Trachelospermum jasminoides grows well in full sun to partial shade and fertile, well-drained soil with regular moisture while becoming established. Mature plants tolerate moderate drought and considerable heat, although flowering is generally best with good light. It can be trained on trellises, fences, walls, and arbors or allowed to spread as a dense groundcover. Pruning after flowering helps control vigorous growth. It is suitable outdoors in USDA Zones 8-11, with established plants tolerating brief temperatures into the teens Fahrenheit, although foliage and young growth may be damaged by frost.