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Night blooming jasmine

Hello,

Wondered if you could help us please.  

We have night blooming jasmine plants that flowered very late last year but we did actually get some flowers, not many though.

Through winter we had the plants in our shed which gives them plenty of light through the windows and was giving them water every two weeks.  Despite the shed being water tight which of course means no frost on the plants, all four plants shed their leaves through the winter.  The leaves seemed to get soggy and limp and then fell off.

The plants are at the moment just a series of very pale twigs although when you run your nail down the bark the inside is still green.  At this stage of the year they still have not even one leaf on them.

Can you help with what we may be doing wrong and how to get them to flower through the spring/summer as they should be.

Thanking you in anticipation.

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  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    I fear anything with no sign of leaf now is a gonna. I am assuming it's a Cestrum which are very far from hardy. The temperature in an unheated shed is not high enough for tropicals


    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • swch36swch36 Posts: 3
    It happened the same last year but they did come back and produce flowers albeit very late.
  • nutcutletnutcutlet Posts: 27,445
    you might be lucky then



    In the sticks near Peterborough
  • Jess91Jess91 Posts: 159
    It's meant to be evergreen so if it's losing all its leaves it is probably not happy in the shed over winter.

    Do you have space in the house you could keep it through winter?
    Slowly building a wildlife garden, in a new build in East Yorkshire.
  • swch36swch36 Posts: 3
    No, unfortunately not.  They are in four huge outdoor pots.
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