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Jasmine Care: How to Plant, Grow, and Care for Jasmine Flowers

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Delicate and dainty with small flowers, jasmine is known around the world for its unique tropical smell and pretty blossoms that attract bees. The jasmine flower is usually white, although some species are yellow or cream, and it can bloom all year long. Jasmine can grow in a pot or hanging basket. It can also be planted directly in the ground and trained to climb or grow as bushes or ground cover.

Interested in growing Jasmine? Learn everything there is to know about jasmine plant care so you can enjoy its sweet-smelling flower and full, hardy look.

What are Jasmine Flowers?

Jasmine flowers are tropical blooms that thrive in warmer climates. Most varieties have a distinct scent that is popular even off the vine. The smell of jasmine can be found in everything from teas to candles to soaps to lotion. Jasmine has bright green, glossy foliage and likes sun to light shade and relatively fertile, well-drained soil. Some jasmine plants are evergreen, meaning they will keep their green leaves year-round. While growing jasmine does require some effort, it’s well worth it, as the plant will put on a profuse, showy display of blooms that can liven up even the dullest of yards.

Planting Jasmine Flowers

Planting jasmine is easy. Just follow these simple tips.

Jasmine Plant Care

Jasmine is not particularly hard to care for, but it does require some attention in the beginning and needs regular feeding and pruning. Learn how to care for a jasmine plant below.

Types of Jasmine

Jasmine is a member of the olive family. The most common types are grown as vines, but there are some varieties that work as ground covers or shrubs, too. There are about 200 different species of jasmine, which is native to warmer, temperate tropical climates. Jasmine plant types will all have slightly different needs, so it is important to know about the varieties before choosing which one to plant.

Common Questions About Jasmine

Is Jasmine an annual or perennial?

Jasmine is a perennial that will grow year after year. Different varieties have different watering, space and sunlight needs depending on what zone they are growing in.

How much sun does jasmine need?

All types of jasmine will do well in full sun to partial shade – exactly how much sun a plant needs each day will depend on the variety.

Can jasmine grow indoors or outdoors?

Jasmine can grow both indoors and outdoors. Dwarf varieties do best indoors, but vines can also thrive inside the home. Just pinch or prune the plant in the dormant season to maintain the desired height and shape.

Can jasmine survive winter?

Many gardeners choose to grow jasmine in containers so they can bring the plant indoors over winter. If bringing jasmine inside because of extreme cold, do so gradually, over about a week or so, to allow the plant time to adjust to less sun once indoors. A good way to make this transition is by bringing the plant in at night, and then returning it outside during the day time, increasing the hours you leave it inside throughout the week. Once it is inside permanently, place it in the sunniest spot of the house.

When does jasmine bloom?

Jasmine blooms in clusters from spring until well into the fall. The sweet flowers are most often cream, white or yellow, depending on the variety, and will attract bees and other pollinators.

How long do jasmine flowers last?

With enough sun and the right watering and feeding, jasmine flowers will stay open and fresh for you to enjoy for several months.

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Jasmine Plant Care - How To Grow Jasmine Vines

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Jasmine

By: Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban Agriculturist

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The jasmine plant is a source of exotic fragrance in warmer climates. It is an important scent noted in perfumes, and also has herbal properties. The plants may be vines or bushes and some are evergreen. Most jasmine plants are found in tropical to sub-tropical climates, although a few may thrive in temperate zones.

Protection from cold temperatures is one of the most important aspects of jasmine plant care. Growing jasmine vines can create a perfumed shield over arbors, trellises and fences. The bush types are excellent landscape specimens with starry pink, white, ivory or even yellow scented blooms.

Jasmine Plants

Jasmine plant care may require a bit of effort, but the results are well worth the work. Not all jasmine plants are fragrant, but the most common and hardy do produce a sweet, carrying fragrance.

Common jasmine is a vine, and has larger glossy green leaves than Royal jasmine. Both can survive in temperate climates if they are planted in a sheltered area. Arabian jasmine is a small bush with evergreen leaves.

There are many other varieties of jasmine plant, of which are best suited for sub-tropical climates. Learning how to grow jasmine will add a striking visual and olfactory touch to the garden.

How to Grow Jasmine

•Choose a warm, sheltered location when growing jasmine. The vining varieties require a support structure as some can get 15 feet (4. 5 m.) tall.

•All jasmine plants prefer sun to light shade sites with well-draining and moderately fertile soil.

•Install the plant in the ground at the same level it was growing in the nursery pot. Most jasmine plants are grafted onto the common jasmine rootstock because of their superior hardiness.

Care of a Jasmine Vine

Jasmine plant care is not difficult but does require vigilance. The vines need to be trained early when they are young. You may use plant ties or just weave them through trellis sections.

•Fertilize the plant in spring just before new growth appears.

•Pinch off the tips of the vines in the second year to promote branching which will fill the trellis with bushy growth.

•The vining jasmine plant is prone to spider mites, which can be combated with horticultural oil or neem oil.

Indoor Jasmine Care

Dwarf varieties of jasmine make excellent houseplants. They require even moisture and a sunny location in the home. Vines can also be brought into the home, and the height is easy to manage with pruning or pinching in the dormant season. Potted plants don’t have access to extra nutrients, so they need fertilizing twice annually.

Watch carefully for pests and water from the bottom to prevent spotting on the glossy leaves. Your jasmine plant will flower in late spring into summer. Repot it before bloom time in early spring as needed.

How to Grow Jasmine Cuttings

Harvest tip cuttings in spring and plant them for free plants. Dip the cutting into a rooting hormone and push the end into a soilless medium, such as peat. Keep the cutting lightly moist.

Jasmine plant cuttings are best started during June to October. Once rooted, follow general jasmine plant care instructions.

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Jasmine in your garden: planting and care

How many pleasant emotions blooming jasmine gives us, decorating our garden with golden-white flowers, which literally sprinkle its fragile branches so that even the leaves are not visible.

And their delicate, delicate aroma, filling the entire garden, awakens sweet dreams and joyful hopes.

Aroma gardens are now very fashionable in Europe, in which jasmine occupies one of the leading places among other pleasantly smelling plants.

Garden jasmine is a very unpretentious ornamental shrub that even a novice gardener can grow. It does not require careful care, is not afraid of severe winter frosts, practically does not get sick and is not damaged by pests.

But how much beauty, grace, feeling of lightness, youth, light and joy!

Today we'll cover the essentials of jasmine, how it's planted and cared for, and then introduce you to the very best varieties from our unique collection of ornamental shrubs.

We would like to emphasize that all our varieties are long-flowering (their flowering lasts from the first decade of June to the beginning of August).

GARDEN JASMINE - BIOLOGICAL FEATURES

In fact, a beautiful ornamental shrub that we call "jasmine" has a biological name "mock orange". And real jasmine is a tropical plant that we can grow only indoors or in winter gardens.

But gardeners and many experts still call mock orange garden jasmine. Since we are used to this name, let's call it that in this article.

Garden jasmine is a deciduous shrub up to 3 m high, which belongs to the Hortensia family.

Jasmine branches are thin and very brittle. They grow fast. If the bushes are planted in the fall, then they will bloom in the first spring. When planting in spring, wait for flowering only next year.

The leaves of garden jasmine are dark green, thin, with carved edges.

Large single or double flowers, snow white or cream with a golden center, exude a strong delicate aroma that you want to inhale for hours.

According to the timing of flowering varieties of garden jasmine are divided into early, middle and late. Each long-blooming variety can delight with its golden-white flower caps for no more than a month.

But by choosing different varieties, you can admire your luxurious jasmine garden for more than two months.

GARDEN JASMINE: PLANTING AND CARE

Planting time . You can plant garden jasmine in spring and autumn, and if the seedlings are with a closed root system (ZKS), which we have prepared for you, then planting can be done in summer.

Landing area . Garden jasmine is very fond of open sunny places. There it will bloom luxuriantly and profusely. It can grow in partial shade, but in this case, its flowers will be smaller.

Jasmine does not like close groundwater, so it should not be planted in lowlands where melt and rainwater stagnate. In such areas, plant jasmine bushes on small mounds (40 - 50 cm high).

Soils . Jasmine needs soils that are light, loose, rich in organic matter, well permeable to oxygen to the roots, with a neutral reaction of the environment (pH 7.0).

Jasmine will not grow in acidic soils, so neutralize the area where you plan to plant it in advance. It is best to use dolomite flour for this (2 kg per 5 sq. m of plot).

Jasmine soil should always be loose and well moistened.

Fit . Dig planting holes with a diameter and depth of 50 cm at a distance of 15 - 2 m from each other. If you want to make a jasmine hedge, reduce the distance between seedlings to 80 cm.

Lay a drain of broken bricks or small gravel at the bottom with a layer of 10 cm.

Fill the planting pits with artificially prepared soil, composed of: the upper fertile layer, rotted manure, leaf soil and river sand in a ratio of 1:2:2:1.

Plant seedlings in such a way that the root collar is exactly at ground level, otherwise the trunks may begin to rot.

After planting, water the plants well (2 watering cans under each) and mulch with straw in a layer of 6 - 7 cm. The mulch layer will help retain moisture in the soil and will prevent weed growth, as well as the formation of soil crust.

Fertilizer. For lush flowering, garden jasmine needs good nutrition. For the summer season, give him four top dressings.

Feed the bushes for the first time immediately after the snow melts with a solution of carbamide (2 tablespoons per bucket of water) under each bush.

The second time, give the plants two top dressings of slurry (at a concentration of 1:10 - one bucket per bush) at the beginning of budding and two weeks after that.

Feed your jasmine in the fall with some ready-made mineral complex for autumn fertilization of ornamental shrubs.

Watering. Jasmine loves water very much. It is necessary for the plant for lush, long flowering. In dry, cool weather, water the bushes once a week (three watering cans under each bush). In hot weather, increase the amount of watering.

We recommend that you water your jasmine either in the early morning or in the evening - after 6 pm. Water strictly under the root so that water splashes do not fall on the leaves and flowers.

If you do not follow the watering norms, then the flowering of jasmine may stop altogether.

Cut . For jasmine, the most important pruning is sanitary. Do it in early spring before bud break. Without sparing, cut out all the old (over 7 years old), broken, frozen and growing shoots inside the bush.

Then cut all branches to a quarter length. Leave 7 - 9 strongest branches. When flowering is over, cut off faded branches without annual growths.

Winterization . All modern varieties of garden jasmine are characterized by very high frost resistance (up to -42 degrees), so adult bushes do not need to be covered for the winter.

But we advise you to protect young plantings in the first two years from severe frosts, especially in snowless winters. A thick layer (40 - 50 cm) of dry leaves in the near-trunk circles will be enough for plants.

Such a shelter will serve as a reliable protection for the bushes that have not yet grown stronger from the winter cold.

THE BEST JASMINE VARIETIES FROM OUR COLLECTION

We have told you about jasmine, its planting and care. Now we present you the most fashionable and most beautiful long-flowering varieties of this amazing ornamental shrub:

Our collection:

Lady in white, Lime stone, Pompom, Blizzard.

Read more about these varieties on our website and in the SPRING 2021 catalog.

And you can buy them from us for spring planting today!

planting and care in the open field, description, varieties, cultivation, propagation, pruning

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  1. Description of shrub
  2. Shrub description

    The jasmine bush is distinguished by its lush crown, strewn with white and yellow inflorescences, and fragrant aroma. During flowering, essential oils are released into the air, thanks to which the plant smells so pleasant. Bees and other insects willingly collect nectar from its inflorescences.

    Types and varieties of jasmine

    There is a wide variety of jasmine subspecies that differ in flower size. The most popular of them are the following varieties:

    1. Small-leaved. Height - up to 1 m. The leaves are curved, large. The aroma is reminiscent of strawberry.
    2. Ordinary. Height - up to 2.5–3 m. It blooms in large large inflorescences with a pleasant smell. The leaves are rich golden.
    3. Fluffy. A good choice for a park and a spacious lot. Height - up to 4 m. Flowers do not smell, but they look beautiful for about 4 weeks.
    4. Ermine mantle. Height - up to 1 m. Flowering lasts 8 weeks. Inflorescences grow evenly throughout the branch.

    Features of growing jasmine often depend on the type of plant. So, growing and caring for a jasmine liana on the street will be slightly different from growing shrubs, but the general rules of care are the same.

    Features of planting and care

    How to grow a jasmine tree strong and healthy? First you need to choose the right time and place of landing. Agricultural technicians advise planting jasmine in early spring and give the following recommendations: The more light, the more spectacular the shrub looks.

  3. Jasmine roots do not like waterlogging, so it is better to plant it on a small hill.
  4. If you plan to create a hedge, plant the plants at a distance of 50 cm from each other. It is impossible to plant closer, because the shrub has an extensive root system.
  5. The planting hole should be no more than 80 cm deep and about 50 cm in diameter so that the roots do not become deformed.
  6. The hole prepared for planting should be left to bask in the sun for several days.
  7. Then fill the hole with a mixture of stones and sand as a drainage layer and add 50 g of nitrophosphate to improve the establishment of the bush.
  8. Prepare a soil mixture of peat and black earth with the addition of ash, sand and humus. Pour it into the hole, forming a mound.
  9. Place the seedling on a mound, straightening the roots. It is important to deepen the sprout, but avoid plunging the root neck into the soil by more than 3 cm. Top up the soil and compact the pit.
  10. Moisten the soil with 2 buckets of water.
  11. Mulch the ground with sawdust, peat or pine needles.

Fertilizing options

Jasmine cultivation in the garden involves the use of fertilizers. The first top dressing is carried out one year after planting in the ground.

Of the mineral fertilizers, the most suitable solution for jasmine is a solution of 1 liter of water and 5 g of superphosphate, 2.5 g of potassium sulfide and urea. From organic fertilizers, humus and manure are used. The second - only in a diluted form, otherwise you can burn the roots. The proportion of slurry preparation is 1:15.

Propagation Methods

If you want to grow a hedge from the only jasmine shrub planted in your area, you first need to choose a propagation method for the plant. Available options:

  1. Seeds - in open ground or box with subsequent transplantation.
  2. By cuttings: cut cuttings in early June and plant them in a greenhouse or in open ground.
  3. Shoots: in the fall, separate strong and strong shoots from the mother plant, and in the spring, after wintering indoors or in a greenhouse, plant them on the site.
  4. By dividing the shrub: in autumn, dig up the plant and very carefully divide the root system into several parts so that each part has at least 2-3 stems.

Shrub pruning

When answering the question of how to grow jasmine, we cannot but mention one more procedure - timely pruning of shrubs. It is important to inspect the bush annually, remove diseased and damaged branches, form the desired plant height and crown splendor.

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