I inherited a jasmine with our house (Dec 2013). It was very well established but we've never done anything to look after it and it's never looked anything but rampant! We're in the South East so perhaps don't get as hard frosts as other places. We'll see what it looks like after next week's weather!
I had one in a giant pot at sea level on the East coast of Norn Iron and it sat there happily for years till I became complacent. I moved it across 80 miles to the West and up to round 650 feet where it promptly snuffed it during the first Winter which wasn't even that bad.
BL's suggestion of fleece is probably your best bet.
What? Didn't know Norn Iron??? Bet you did when you said it out loud!!! (I sometimes give elocution lessons on Rezzers ).
Here is green. Very very green and yes, very very very wet. I'm on, pretty much, pure peat so the rhodos etc just love it. I've given up on lawn and have come to love flat green bit full of buttercups, self-heal, moss, more moss and even the odd thistle. The rushes do my head in though. It's been too wet to cut since August and it looks like it should have animals in it.
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Mine has survived snow before. Compost could help though. What about a fleece cover?
Sorry Busy-Lizzie, I got sidetracked. Yes that sounds a good idea, thank you
You can tell I'm not used to protecting more 'sensitive' plants.
I inherited a jasmine with our house (Dec 2013). It was very well established but we've never done anything to look after it and it's never looked anything but rampant! We're in the South East so perhaps don't get as hard frosts as other places. We'll see what it looks like after next week's weather!
It depends very much on the conditions Fishy.
I had one in a giant pot at sea level on the East coast of Norn Iron and it sat there happily for years till I became complacent. I moved it across 80 miles to the West and up to round 650 feet where it promptly snuffed it during the first Winter which wasn't even that bad.
BL's suggestion of fleece is probably your best bet.
Many thanks to you both
I've heaped some spare topsoil around the base. At least then if the roots survive it should push on come spring.
Plant pauper - I just had to google 'Norn Iron' thinking it was some obscure island?! Are growing conditions in Northern Ireland good? All that rain
Will look into fleece too
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Fishy, are we talking Jasminum officinale or Trachelospermum jasminoides?
Pretty sure its Jasminum Officinale Mark
RHS has it down as H5, -10 to -15 but like you I will mulch just in case because of the added wind chill
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What? Didn't know Norn Iron??? Bet you did when you said it out loud!!!
(I sometimes give elocution lessons on Rezzers 
).
Here is green. Very very green and yes, very very very wet. I'm on, pretty much, pure peat so the rhodos etc just love it. I've given up on lawn and have come to love flat green bit full of buttercups, self-heal, moss, more moss and even the odd thistle. The rushes do my head in though. It's been too wet to cut since August and it looks like it should have animals in it.
A field...that's the word I'm looking for!