Star Jasmine not thriving?

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• Ceres Posts: 2,698

  May 2023

  It looks dead to me but you can check for signs of life just to make sure. The following is from the RHS site:

  
  

  When you suspect a plant is dead but are not sure, take the following test;

  1. Scratch the bark (the “scratch test”) on the shoots of your trees or shrub with your thumb nail or a penknife. A stem with green under the bark is alive; a stem with brown under the bark is dead. Living shoots also tend to have smooth, firm bark, whereas dead or dying shoots tend to have flaking, peeling or wizened bark.
  2. Where the shoots are dead at the tips, repeat the test on thicker wood to see if that is also dead. Where most or all of the upper parts of a plant are brown under the bark, the plant is most likely dead.
  3. A final test is to scrape the bark of the main stem just below the soil line or on the roots themselves. If this appears dark in colour, especially with any sign of soft, rotting roots, then you can be confident your plant is dead.

  Plants that still show some signs of life (e.g. green under the bark or a firm rootstock) could be left for a few months or until spring to see if they improve. Where they continue to deteriorate or simply fail to come into growth in the spring, assume they are dead.

  
  

  It has been a brutal winter and many people have lost plants to the cold and wet conditions. Plants in pots are especially vulnerable as the roots are more exposed to the possibility of freezing.
  

  
  

  
  

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