Re: Jasmines
jansmithen@earthlink.net writes:
>I'm preparing a lesson on jasmines for my Fanatic Gardeners at the LA
>County Arboretum. And, although I've grown a couple of them, I find my
>"hands-on" experience is very limited. So I turn to all of you. What
>have you grown within the genus Jasminum? How did it perform for you?
>Did you have to do a lot of pruning to keep it within bounds? Did it
>always need regular watering, or did you find, as I did with Jasminum
>polyanthum, that it became fairly drought tolerant after a few years?
Well, the only Jasmine I grow is J. polyanthum. It's fast growing for me
(i have it on a wire trellis strung across one side of the porch), and
does quite well despite the um.....neglect it sometimes gets. I dont have
to do a lot of pruning, because i tend to just push the vines back among
the rest of the plant, but I have done some pruning, mostly to get it to
branch out. I've found also that it becomes fairly drought tolerant after
a while (in the spot it's in, i water it maybe once a week at most,
sometimes two weeks). It also grows in plain sand and seems to thrive
there. I did cut it back earlier this year when we repainted the porch
(originally the trellis stretched from the roof of the porch to the
ground, and I had to take the trellis down). I gave it a hard pruning, and
it responded well. Now it's flowering here and there.
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>Oh, and do you pronounce it Jas- meen- um, or Jas- men- um, and where
>does the accent go, first of second syllable?
>TIA ;-)
I pronounce it jas-meen-um, with the accent on the middle syllable.
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