Winter Jasmine
Jasminum nudiflorum
Takes a cold north wall as readily as a sunny one, but it clings to nothing — every stem has to be tied in.
- Type
- Shrub · Perennial
- Botanical family
- Mixed / other
- Foliage color
- Green
- Flower color
- Yellow
- Sunlight
- Any aspect suits it, north-facing walls included.
- Watering
- Dry spells trouble it little once established.
- Feeding
- A compost mulch in spring, and no more — overfeeding does it no good.
- Frost tolerant
- Yes
- Flowering
- January
- Pruning
- Prune after the flowers finish in spring, tying in the new growth as you go.
- Jan–Jan Flowering
- Jan–Mar Bud Break
- Mar–Nov Spring Growth
- Nov–Dec Leaf Fall
- Jan–Jan Leaf Fall
- Plant spacing
- 6 ft 7 in
- In-row spacing
- 6 ft 7 in
- Between rows
- 8 ft 2 in
- Square-foot density
- Not suited to SFG
- Root system
- Woody and fibrous
- Working depth
- 12–24 in
- Can reach
- 3 ft down where the soil allows
- Spread
- 10–13 ft across, about 1.5–2× the width of the plant
- Shallowest pot
- 20 in of soil
A shallow woody framework with the fine feeding roots in the leaf litter above it. Those feeders are mostly under the outer half of the canopy rather than against the stem, which is where water and feed should go.
Arching stems root wherever they touch the soil, so it walks steadily outwards along a bank. Cut the layered tips away, or let it cover the ground.
The habit is Winter Jasmine’s own; the figures are what that habit usually comes to at this size, not a measurement of this species. Roots follow the soil either way: a compacted pan, a high water table or heavy clay stops them well short of any of it, and deep open ground lets them go further.
- Generally trouble-free No notable pest or disease problems when grown in the right conditions — one of the easy ones.
Snowdrops, Hellebores, Cyclamen
Shrubs, like this one.
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