Chinese Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum)

Common Names: Chinese Star Jasmine,
Star Jasmine, Creeping Jasmine, Confederate Jasmine, Confederate Jessamine, Southern Jasmine, Chinese Ivy

Origin: Southeastern & Eastern Asia

• Versatile and hardy
• Dense, green evergreen foliage
• Sweetly fragrant flowers

Easily the most popular groundcover and climber, Star Jasmine is picked for its heavily fragrant flowers and robust green foliage. An incredibly hardy and easy to grow plant, Trachelospermum suits most garden styles and makes a really wonderful cover for unsightly places.
Star Jasmine can be used as a beautifully dense groundcover. Employed in this way will smother out weeds and create an easy to maintain garden bed, the edges trimmed a couple of times a year to maintain the smooth, flowing edge.
As a climber, Chinese Star Jasmine makes a great alternative to a hedge, particularly for narrow spaces. Best grown up a trellis or over framework on a fence, this evergreen climber makes a wonderful backdrop or feature. It doesn’t even have to be grown as a dense cover either! Make a real feature out of it, training the twisting vines over wire in a diamond configuration or cover an otherwise dull archway.
The fragrant flowers come out during the warmer months, filling the air with its beautiful jasmine fragrance. During the winter months the foliage turns a bronze-red in the cold, returning to its former green glory in the summer.

Plant Type: Vine

Uses: Groundcover, Medium Hedge, Climber

Garden Types: Pots & Containers, Formal, Modern, Hampton

Care

Sun Requirements: Prefers a full sun or part to full shade position. Flowers best in full sun, far less in shaded positions. Grows slower in shaded positions.

Water Requirements: Water regularly until established. Once established they are drought-hardy.

Soil Requirements: Prefers moist, well-drained loamy soil. Will tolerate sand and clay soil types.

Fertilizing: Slow Release or liquid general-purpose fertilizer in spring and summer. Not required once established unless soil lacks nutrients

Pruning: Light prune in spring. Clear out congested vines, dead, diseased and dying material and any vines in undesired areas. Try to avoid pruning in winter as it may cause the plant to struggle.

Tolerances: Drought, sun, poor soils, pollution, and frost.

Diseases: Disease and pest resistant

Key Features

Flower: Star shaped or tube-like corolla with five petals, often white fading to yellow with age. Some varieties are vibrant yellow. Heavily fragrant.

Foliage: Ovate or lanceolate opposite leaves, often thick and robust. Mostly dark green with light green new growth, bronzing in the cold. Some varieties are variegated with yellows, whites and pinks.

Edible: No

Toxicity: No known toxicity. Does produce a white, sticky sap

Attracts: Bees, Butterflies and Birds

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