Jasmine Flower

What is it exactly which makes the Jasmine flower so attractive in the garden? Is it the size, abundance, shape, or could it be the amazing smell that is found in almost every favorite perfume? Let your nose guide you to all that this incredible plant has to offer.

Jasmine Flowers

A name growing in popularity for baby girls across the nation, Jasmine flowers are beautiful for all the senses. From the sound of the name to the style of the plant, every gardener should experience one in their garden. Easy to grow and enjoy, there is a species of Jasmine perfect for your yard or deck.

Star Jasmine flowers make a wonderful groundcover. This plant, also known as Confederate Jasmine (Trachelospermum Jasminoides) is best in Zones 8 to 10. With luxurious and dense foliage, it covers the ground at about 8 to 18 inches high. The groundcover provides evergreen leaves along with the fragrantly scented white flowers from late winter to early summer. This Jasmine is a perfect plant for a rock garden or as a creeper between shrubs as it can stand sun or shade. Not only will it cover the bareness of your dirt, but also prevent weed growth with a fragrance to enjoy all spring long.

Many creeping groundcovers can also transform upwards. Jasmine is no exception. This flowering vine is a perfect decoration for an unsightly fence or wall. Although it needs some support as a vine, Jasmine flowers will extend your garden up offering the opportunity to hide an ugly view or create some privacy. Adding beauty as well as carrying its lovely scent through the wind, Jasmine is an excellent choice.

There are four main varieties of Jasmine vines, each with its own characteristics:

White Jasmine Flower

• Common White Jasmine (Jasminum Officinale)

A Zone 7 preferred vine, this Jasmine’s flowers are fragrant white blossoms in the summer. One of the most popular of the Jasmine vines, the Common White is ideal for trellises or arbors, growing vibrantly in sun or light shade. As a semievergreen, it will lose its leaves during particularly cold winters.

• Japanese Jasmine (Jasminum Mesnyi)

The particularly beautiful Jasmine flowers in this Zone 8 plant are small and yellow. Not a true climber, this vine will need some strong string or wire to support its height. Blooming in the spring and summer, this plant prefers sun or light shade.

• Star Jasmine (Trachelospermun Jasminoides)

While often used as a groundcover, this Zone 9 plant will climb with twine as support. One of the best flowering vines for a shady area, Star Jasmine loves a moist soil.

• Yellow Star (Trachelospermun Asiaticum)

One of the hardier of the Jasmine flowers, it will tolerate Zones less than 8 if it gets some winter protection. Extremely fragrant ivory flowers bloom from early spring to midsummer along the evergreen leaves. Sun or light shade and a wetter soil are preferred.

Jasmine flowers are an ideal greenhouse plant. If you are the lucky owner of a greenhouse garden, enjoy the scent Jasmine flowers will bring to your plant paradise. They grow well in containers, just place in large pots. Ideally keep your potted Jasmine outside in the bright sunlight until the temperatures start to dip into the lower 40s at night. Then you can move it inside for the colder winter - a perfect way to enjoy the fragrant Jasmine flower in all zones.

Jasmines prefer an indoor environment which is cool to moderate, night temperatures from 40 to 50 degrees F. and 55 to 70 degrees in the daytime.

Winter Jasmine Flower

Another variety of Jasmine flower is Winter Jasmine (Jasminum Nudiflorum). Although it doesn’t produce the fragrant scent of its cousins, it can be bright and cheerful in the dead of winter. A shrub, the Winter Jasmine does lose its leaves but in their place are brilliant yellow flowers about one inch long. Native to China, it is a low maintenance plant that survives a variety of growing conditions preferably in Zone 8.

As a vine and groundcover, Jasmine flowers of all varieties can be reproduced easiest from cuttings. The best method is in a greenhouse, sunroom, or cold frame with temperatures warmer than 40 degrees, but cooler than 70 degrees F. They are best started from mature plants in early spring or early fall.

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