Trachelospermum sp.

This is a Trachelospermum, one of the star jasmines, offered here as an unnamed selection. Like others in the genus, the plant is a twining, self-clinging evergreen vine with glossy, leathery, dark-green leaves that clothe a fence, trellis, or arbor in dense green through the year and take readily to clipping into a clean, structured cover.

The star jasmines are evergreen climbers of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae, native to China, Japan, and neighboring parts of Asia, grown across the warm South for handsome foliage and, in most forms, small, star-shaped, powerfully fragrant flowers in late spring and summer. As an unnamed selection, this vine is expected to carry the white, sweetly scented star flowers typical of the genus, though the exact form is uncertain.

In the garden, set the Trachelospermum against a fence, wall, trellis, arbor, or post for the twining stems to climb, or let the vine run as a dense evergreen groundcover on a bank or slope. The plant grows at a steady pace, takes to shearing for a tidy screen or a controlled groundcover, and adapts to a range of soils in sun or part shade in a mild climate.

Give good, well-drained soil, sun to part shade, and water through establishment, and this star jasmine will settle into a versatile, evergreen presence for a fence line, a shaded wall, or a bank in need of clean, year-round green. Best in the milder regions of the warm South.