growing but little flowering - why

Joanne! · 21 January

well established yellow winter jasmine growing against pergola - see pic. grows in size but never seems to have many flowers. i lightly prune between spring and summer to reduce its bulk and tidy it up - what am i doing wrong?

Papi Jo · 21 January

No pic!

Dovefromabove · 21 January

If the photo refuses to upload reducing its size usually works.

GardenerSuze · 21 January

@Joanne! I would prune directly after flowering late winter early spring at the latest.You may have cut away flowers that were starting to form. There has been a recent thread where squirrels have eaten the flowers.

Joanne! · 21 January

apologies - lets see if this pic will upload

timhayes00149025 · 21 January

cut the flags back dig down as far as poss top dress with a compost rich in humus and feed with high potash right through summer every two weeks and it will be reet might not right itself in the first year but stick at it and each year will be better than the last got to cut the flags back though .
good luck Tim.

Joanne! · 22 January

thanks tim - what are flags ??

GardenerSuze · 22 January

@Joanne! By flags I think @timhayes00149025 is referring to the paving? I think the point that is being made is that the roots are possibly confined not easy to say from a photo.
Personally I would cut it back hard late winter, it does look like it has a tangle of dead stems that will be sorted as a result.
Sometimes old shrubs need to be rejuvinated and then given a spring dose of something like Blood fish and bone

bédé · 22 January

Forget the flags. THe plant obviously has enough soil, food and moisture.

You are probably pruning off next year's flowers. I would prune immediately after flowering. Say, now, and much more radical.

JennyJ · 22 January

I find my winter jasmine flowers best if it's allowed to produce long arching stems, which is what it naturally wants to do. They can be tied in to wires/trellis on a fence or wall, but it's not really the right sort of climber to keep tidily clipped into a column like that.

Buttercupdays · 23 January

I agree with @JennyJ . Mine grows in compacted, unimproved soil behind a cold frame. It leans against the wall with long trailing branches, never gets fed and the only pruning is to remove stems that encroach on the doorway. Nevertheless it is flowering happily all along the stems even after this very cold weather, a lovely, low maintenance plant.

growing but little flowering - why

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