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Reet2
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I have had a star jasmine for 2 years lots of healthy growth but sadly only ever had 1 flower on it help!
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Trachelospermum jasminoides will need a south facing wall in this country for it to flower well. A young plant may still be growing a framework. If it is in a sunny spot, try a feed of a high potassium food such as phostrogen in the spring.
Many thanks it is in a very sunny position and I do feed it every week with a really good plant food will check if it contains the things you mention
I think feeding it every week is over-doing it. That's probably why you're getting lots of healthy foliage and few flowers. Producing flowers and seeds is a plants way of ensuring the survival of the species, and sometimes if it feels a little threatened it will flower well. If the plant is growing happily it sometimes doesn't bother.
I'd stop using whatever fertiliser you're using and in the early spring water in some soluble potash (as directed on the packet). Just the one dose.
Then wait and see - if you get no flowers give it a sprinkling of fish, blood & bone in mid summer and the following year another dose of potash in the spring.
Good luck, and let us know how you get on
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.