Re: jasmine

In a message dated 04/05/2003 6:09:54 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
jsinger@igc.org writes:

> i have a tower of jasmine. confederate jasmine [trachlospermum 
> jasminoides], a vine, has crawled up a 40-foot slash pine in my front patio 
> 
> and completely swaddled most of the tree's trunk. it is in full bloom now, 
> and will be, off and on, for most of the summer. one can smell it a block 
> away.
> 

Jim, that brings back memories!  The house where I grew up in the panhandle 
had a massive Confederate Jasmine growing on a trellis beside the back door.  
It was such a handsome mass of green and white!  On Mother's Day Sunday they 
used to pick large baskets of it and Dorothy Perkins roses.  At the church 
door you were given a pink or white blossom depending on whether your mother 
was alive or dead.  Since my mother had died when I was an infant, I always 
received the white, and still think of it on Mother's Day.  I can remember 
the preacher's wife standing on a ladder to pick the white blooms.  It always 
oozed a white sap, but I don't remember that ir caused a problem by staining 
or being sticky.  I have often wished I had a greenhouse so that I could try 
to grow that vine (and for other reasons, too).  Enjoy it!
Auralie

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