I can't add much to this discussion but I did want to thank you for posting a picture of a very happy looking plant. It's not always a bad thing buying from Homebase etc: as long as you choose carefully. I bought some petunias from B&Q last year and they did brilliantly. It looks like you might actually have got a bargain. Congratulations.
Thanks for all the tips everyone Just a little update - it seems to be doing fine so far in the corner. A few little flowers have started to come out and when it flowers a bit more I will take a photo of it.
Perhaps if I'd left it inside it would have already flowered by now but I have a bit of a scatty approach to gardening and just get excited and plant things before I really look into them! Currently there is an offer on at Morrissons as well for £1.77 for baby clematis/jasmines/sweetpeas and I went a bit mad! I bought a Jasmine Beesianum with beautiful flowers which will also go on the patio when it gets a bit warmer!
Perhaps because the patio we are in is quite sheltered and in north london - where the frosts don't get to things - as well as them being in patio pots it's going to be okay!
The first flower is just coming out - I'll take some more when they are out! And also just to show how strange this winter has been - here is also a snap of a little dianthus that I propagated last summer which made it through the winter on my patio and has already started flowering again :
I thought I'd just share this little picture. Since posting about the Jasmine plant in February this year I had some positive changes! I kept the plant outside on an east facing patio - sheltered from the wind and fed it well over the summer. Then suddenly we had the news that we would have to move house and managed to find a place with a garden *yay!* The Jasmine was doing quite well but as I hadn't trained it properly had tangled and grown all over itself! We put some trellis up in the new garden patio area and the jasmine has taken very well to the new spot! I'm hoping that it will survive the winter and flower! I also have a red jasmine growing up the right hand side of the trellis next to a wisteria
As soon as it flowers I will post an updated photo.
My J. Polyanthum survived the winter outside the kitchen wall in a pot. It's twined itself all over the grill on the larder window. But it was a mild winter. Think I may re-pot it and leave it there as it's got too big to bring in.
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I can't add much to this discussion but I did want to thank you for posting a picture of a very happy looking plant. It's not always a bad thing buying from Homebase etc: as long as you choose carefully. I bought some petunias from B&Q last year and they did brilliantly. It looks like you might actually have got a bargain. Congratulations.
It definitely looks like jasminum polyanthum to me. Jasminum offcianale is deciduous so surely wouldn't have leaves at this time of year?
I have both - the polyanthum comes into the conservatory over the winter and is outside in the summer. Mine flowers from November to March on and off.
Thanks for all the tips everyone
Just a little update - it seems to be doing fine so far in the corner. A few little flowers have started to come out and when it flowers a bit more I will take a photo of it.
Perhaps if I'd left it inside it would have already flowered by now but I have a bit of a scatty approach to gardening and just get excited and plant things before I really look into them! Currently there is an offer on at Morrissons as well for £1.77 for baby clematis/jasmines/sweetpeas and I went a bit mad! I bought a Jasmine Beesianum with beautiful flowers which will also go on the patio when it gets a bit warmer!
Perhaps because the patio we are in is quite sheltered and in north london - where the frosts don't get to things - as well as them being in patio pots it's going to be okay!
The first flower is just coming out - I'll take some more when they are out! And also just to show how strange this winter has been - here is also a snap of a little dianthus that I propagated last summer which made it through the winter on my patio and has already started flowering again :
Should do fine outside in a sunny spot, here is mine last year on a sunny fence
Wow amazing flower Elusive! Gorgeous! So far mine is doing okay! It's not growing rapidly yet but it seems to be expanding slowly
I thought I'd just share this little picture. Since posting about the Jasmine plant in February this year I had some positive changes! I kept the plant outside on an east facing patio - sheltered from the wind and fed it well over the summer. Then suddenly we had the news that we would have to move house and managed to find a place with a garden *yay!* The Jasmine was doing quite well but as I hadn't trained it properly had tangled and grown all over itself! We put some trellis up in the new garden patio area and the jasmine has taken very well to the new spot! I'm hoping that it will survive the winter and flower! I also have a red jasmine growing up the right hand side of the trellis next to a wisteria
As soon as it flowers I will post an updated photo.
That's encouraging.
My J. Polyanthum survived the winter outside the kitchen wall in a pot. It's twined itself all over the grill on the larder window. But it was a mild winter. Think I may re-pot it and leave it there as it's got too big to bring in.