.‘Peggy Clarke’ is a gorgeous small tree with a vased-shaped habit, sited here in a west-facing location near our front door for optimal late-winter viewing. . Winter jasmine, Jasminum nudiflorum, cascades off the corner of our terrace, but I have also seen it grown as a groundcover...
The main species ofgardenia(also known as “cape jasmine”) grown in North American gardens is native to the tropical regions of East Asia, including southern China and Taiwan. In this part of the world, the plant has been used for centuries in herbal medicine. Its yellow fruit was traditio...
We inherited the camellia when we bought the house and it still surprises me that it does so well, facing as it does to the south, exposed to the east and mulched by a fair amount of builder's rubble, thinly disguised under a layer of leafmould. Behind the camellia is a long ...
I prune them the same way and they get the same amount of light, they are planted at the base of a north west facing wall. Now, the two bushes last year produced identical amounts of flowers, but this year on of the two produced very small flower heads, 4 times smaller than the ...