2 questions re planting jasmine

whitesatin

I bought two jasmine polyanthum plants today, one around 90cm tall and the other 1.2m. It is lovely and sunny here (Herts) today although the forecast for tomorrow is to be cooler.

The plants were semi-covered in Homebase and I wondered if I should be planting them outdoors yet. One is to be grown against a trellis to give some coverage, eventually. The smaller one I would love to put in a container on the patio but don't want to lose them as they were quite expensive.

Both are in flower at the moment - so lovely!

Any advice welcome, thanks.

sammyroser

If your really worried you might want to try and harden them off a bit, leave them outside during the day but bring them in at night. Or get a fleecy cover to protect them at night although it's a nightmare to fleece something that's on a trellis.

Flibbertygibbet

I grew Jasmine for many years in Herts, in a fairly sheltered garden. That said, you have probably bought plants that are a bit mollycoddled to get them into flower nice and early. I would keep them indoors at night, and during the day if it falls below 10 degrees centigrade, try and keep them in a sunny spot indoors, but dont bake them.

This is a money saving site so Iwould like to add that they root like billyo (easy to layer) so if you were not in a hurry you could have got your two plants by the end of the summer from just the one.

Also they tend to get straggly, so prune regularly to keep them manageable and so that you are not hard pruning into old wood which is pretty much the only thing that kills them once established.

whitesatin

sammyroser wrote: »

If your really worried you might want to try and harden them off a bit, leave them outside during the day but bring them in at night. Or get a fleecy cover to protect them at night although it's a nightmare to fleece something that's on a trellis.

Thanks for your advice. They have been out in semi sun for a day or so now but the forecast for tonight is pretty cold so I have put them indoors and will gradually put them out again.

whitesatin

Flibbertygibbet wrote: »

I grew Jasmine for many years in Herts, in a fairly sheltered garden. That said, you have probably bought plants that are a bit mollycoddled to get them into flower nice and early. I would keep them indoors at night, and during the day if it falls below 10 degrees centigrade, try and keep them in a sunny spot indoors, but dont bake them.

This is a money saving site so Iwould like to add that they root like billyo (easy to layer) so if you were not in a hurry you could have got your two plants by the end of the summer from just the one.

Also they tend to get straggly, so prune regularly to keep them manageable and so that you are not hard pruning into old wood which is pretty much the only thing that kills them once established.

Thanks for your advice. I have never had much luck growing it before, when I lived in Surrey. I just love the smell so I will try to get more plants from them to use elsewhere in the garden.

Thanks also for your advice re pruning them regularly.

I wonder if I should leave them on the sticks they came on or should I try to take them off and spread them over the bigger trellis in the garden?

VfM4meplse

Just to add that I'm following this thread with interest, bought a small one this weekend and will be devastated if I kill it inadvertently!
From this:

How on earth do I get to this:

peter_the_piper

Time.............:)
Feed.............:)
Talk to them...:)

sobie

Jasminum polyanthum is a conservatory/ house plant and not at all suitable for growing outdoors unless you have somewhere completely frost free.

For a hardier evergreen jasmine try Trachelospermum jasminoides (False/ Star jasmine). As I suppect is in the large picture above

Even better & tough as old boots are the deciduous Jasmines eg Jasminum officinale, Jasminum x stephanense, Jasminum Beesianum.