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Description

Need something to cover an unsightly wall, or add some attractive interest and height to your garden? This wonderful Star Jasmine is perfect! It produces waves of gorgeous pure-white star-like flowers across summer, each one with simply stunning fragrance! Evergreen and winter hardy, it will add year-round interest the foliage is a rich purple in winter then a deep-green in spring and summer. Ideal for growing up posts, walls, arches and fences, and will thrive in a sunny, sheltered spot. Plant it somewhere where you'll be able to smell its incredible fragrant flowers! It is relatively slow-growing about 10-20cm per year in the UK so it will not take over like other climbers.

Top Tips

Train up posts, pilars, trellsies or walls - especially where you can enjoy their heady spring fragrance
Be patient - they do take a couple of years to really settle in and get their roots down before romping away
Hardy to -5�C in the UK, plants will need frost protection as new leaves are fairly tender

Care Information

Planting Advice for Star Jasmine Trachelospermum Jasminoides:

Plant in fertile, well-drained soil in sun or semi-shade. Choose a sheltered position that is protected from cold winter winds. A south or west-facing wall is ideal.
If growing in pots, use a good quality, soil-based compost, and place some bricks in the bottom to provide ballast.
In particularly cold areas, Trachelospermum is best grown in containers that can be moved to a protected position over winter.

Aftercare Advice for Trachelospermum Jasminoides:

Provide the twining stems with an appropriate frame support such as trellis, an obelisk or wires.
During the growing season, water regularly and apply a balanced feed monthly.
Water sparingly in winter.

Pruning Advice for Star Jasmine:

After flowering, prune back the stems to restrict them to the available space, simply thinning out congested, weak or badly placed shoots.
Any stray branches can be tied back to their supports to improve the shape of the plant.

Delivery Information

Our experienced team at the nursery will always carefully package and send your plants nursery fresh in the perfect condition to thrive once you receive and plant them. Although most plants are extremely tough and will not be affected by all but the most extreme of weather conditions, we always avoid dispatching the most perishable plants if extreme frosts or heat is forecast. We also avoid dispatching orders over Bank Holiday weekends.

Please allow us 3-5 working days to dispatch your order. If you have ordered a 'pre-order' item, these will be sent out as soon as possible after the quoted dispatch date and we generally ship your entire order with any pre-ordered items. Once your order has been dispatched, we will send you an email with details on how you can track it.

We send most of our orders via a fully tracked courier service with Yodel. We will send you a tracking link as soon as your order has been dispatched. To avoid perishable items being stuck at depots and deteriorating, we will not require a signature on delivery, and we ask out couriers to leave your item in a safe place ad your delivery address.

*Please note, once your item has been delivered, we cannot be held responsible for loss or theft from your delivery address. If you have delivery instruction and require our courier to leave your item in a specific place, please let us know - there is an option to leave a message for the courier at the checkout.

For smaller and single-item orders, we may send these via the post with Royal Mail - Tracking will not be available for orders sent via this method.

**Please note, we cannot guarantee delivery on a certain day or time. Delivery to outlying postcode areas may take 1-2 days longer, dependent on your location.

For all orders, a small delivery fee of £4.99 will be charged or spend over £49.99 for FREE Delivery!

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