WINTER JASMINE, grows up so many walls, fences and stretches of trellis, its flowering season extends over the worst of the winter months; it will perform in whatever site or soil you offer it, whether dry ground or damp, in sun, shade or anything in between. The yellow flower are like a shower of stars and brighten many a winters day. It is not a true climber but a scramble. I grow mine up a wall using gardening wire and masonry nails.
Please enjoy the photos from my garden
Growing tips
Planting: no special soil preparation is needed to accommodate the winter jasmine, but it always aids a plant if the ball of soil and roots are soaked before planting and the ends are turned outwards by scratching at them with the fingertips. Also, an ample helping of compost around them helps. So does treading it really firmly in position, leaving a depression around the stem in which water can collect in summer.
All plants grown as climbers make quick progress upwards if the stems are trained up little canes from the start. Otherwise they flop about, not knowing where they are supposed to go.
Pruning for control and tidiness is done in early spring. Shorten the side shoots with secateurs in the early days, and with shears as the plant matures. When it gets old and looks senescent, it can be rejuvenated by cutting away all top growth and allowing young shoots from near the base to take over.
Please enjoy the photos from my garden
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| Winter Jasmine - Jasminum nudiflorum |
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| I love the bight star flowers - a smile on a winters day |
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| Winter Jasmine and a drop of melted snow |
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| winter Jasmine flower after the freeze |
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| Frozen Star flower of the Winter Jasmne |
Growing tips
Planting: no special soil preparation is needed to accommodate the winter jasmine, but it always aids a plant if the ball of soil and roots are soaked before planting and the ends are turned outwards by scratching at them with the fingertips. Also, an ample helping of compost around them helps. So does treading it really firmly in position, leaving a depression around the stem in which water can collect in summer.
All plants grown as climbers make quick progress upwards if the stems are trained up little canes from the start. Otherwise they flop about, not knowing where they are supposed to go.
Pruning for control and tidiness is done in early spring. Shorten the side shoots with secateurs in the early days, and with shears as the plant matures. When it gets old and looks senescent, it can be rejuvenated by cutting away all top growth and allowing young shoots from near the base to take over.
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