{"title":"Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum)","description":"\u003cp\u003eConfederate jasmine is not a jasmine at all. The vine belongs to the dogbane family alongside oleander and periwinkle, which the milky sap gives away at once, and the true jasmines sit in an unrelated family. The scent caused the confusion and is worth the misnomer: white pinwheel flowers in late spring, thick enough to cover the whole vine, throwing a perfume that fills a courtyard on a warm evening.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Madison' is the selection to plant where winter bites, a hairy-leaved form of \u003cem\u003eTrachelospermum jasminoides\u003c\/em\u003e that has carried gardeners through zone 7 winters where the type gives up. \u003cem\u003eTrachelospermum asiaticum\u003c\/em\u003e 'Ogon Nishiki' is grown for foliage rather than flowers, new growth coming orange and gold and settling to bronze, and works as a groundcover as readily as a climber. All of them twine rather than cling, so give them wire, a trellis, or a railing to work with. Sun or part shade, and drainage.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"trachelospermum-asiaticum","title":"Trachelospermum asiaticum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAsian Jasmine is not a true Jasmine but is a close relative of the popular \"Confederate Jasmine\" (named for the Malay Confederation). It is less of a climber but a great dense groundcover vine with small, lustrous, dark green, leathery evergreen foliage. It does not flower much but the flowers would be fragrant small white star-shaped blossoms with a yellow center. One of the best plants for a groundcover under trees in the South. Native to eastern Asia.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005151859,"sku":"TRAC-ASIA-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-859.jpg?v=1720141483"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-jasminoides-yellow","title":"Trachelospermum jasminoides \"Yellow\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eYellow flowered form, otherwise as species.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005184627,"sku":"TRAC-JASM-YELL-01G","price":17.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-jasminoides-var-pubescens-madison","title":"Trachelospermum jasminoides var. pubescens 'Madison'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Madison' is the cold-hardy Confederate jasmine, the selection that carries the beloved evergreen vine a full zone north of where the tribe usually stops. Vigorous and twining, with glossy dark leaves and the powerfully fragrant, white, star-shaped flowers that make star jasmine famous, this form has proved hardy into USDA zone 7, well beyond the reach of the standard Trachelospermum jasminoides.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe plant came to Woodlanders through the former Cedar Lane Farms Nursery in Madison, Georgia, where the selection proved markedly more cold-tolerant than typical Confederate jasmine, and is almost certainly the hairy-leaved variety, var. pubescens. Trachelospermum jasminoides is native to China and Japan, a self-clinging evergreen climber of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae; the name jasminoides, jasmine-like, records the scent and the starry flowers rather than a true kinship with the jasmines, and the Confederate name is variously traced to the Malay Confederation and to the American South, where the vine is so loved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the garden, star jasmine has a long medicinal life in East Asia. The dried stems, known in traditional Chinese medicine as luo shi teng and recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, have been decocted to dispel wind-damp and ease rheumatic and joint pain, backache, and sore throat, a use shared in Korea and Japan and now studied for anti-inflammatory activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow 'Madison' against a fence, trellis, arbor, or post for the twining stems to climb, or let the vine spread as a dense evergreen groundcover on a bank. Site where the powerful evening fragrance can be caught, near a path, a door, or a seat, give good, well-drained soil in sun to part shade, and enjoy a Confederate jasmine that holds its evergreen leaves and its scent where the common form would freeze. One of the best evergreen vines for the Upper South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005217395,"sku":"TRAC-JASM-PUBE-MADI-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-861.jpg?v=1720141487"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-jasminoides-variegata","title":"Trachelospermum jasminoides 'Variegata'","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis variegated form of Confederate jasmine, or star jasmine, is grown as much for the foliage as the flowers. Each leathery, evergreen leaf is bordered and splashed with creamy white, often flushed pink in cool weather, and the leaves run larger than on most forms of Trachelospermum jasminoides, so the vine reads as a soft, marbled cloud of green and cream on a fence or trellis even out of bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring and summer the familiar white, star-shaped flowers open along the twining stems, sweetly and powerfully fragrant, and give way to long, slender, paired seed pods. Trachelospermum jasminoides is native to China and Japan, a self-clinging evergreen climber of the dogbane family, Apocynaceae; the name jasminoides, jasmine-like, records the scent and the starry flowers rather than a true kinship with the jasmines.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe species carries a long medicinal history in East Asia. The dried stems, known in traditional Chinese medicine as luo shi teng and listed in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, have been decocted to dispel wind-damp and ease rheumatic and joint pain, backache, and sore throat, a use shared in Korea and Japan and now studied for anti-inflammatory activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, grow the variegated star jasmine on an arbor, trellis, or fence, or as a bright evergreen groundcover, in good, well-drained soil and a semi-shaded to sunny spot, with irrigation through dry spells. The cream-marbled foliage lights a shaded corner and reads beautifully against darker leaves, while the summer fragrance earns the vine a place near a path, a door, or a seat. Best in the milder regions of the warm South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005250163,"sku":"TRAC-JASM-VARI-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-862.jpg?v=1720141490"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-asiaticum-variegata","title":"Trachelospermum asiaticum variegata","description":"\u003cp\u003eHighly variegated form of T. asiaticum.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005315699,"sku":"TRAC-ASIA-VARI-01G","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-860.jpg?v=1720141493"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-sp","title":"Trachelospermum sp.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005479539,"sku":"TRAC-SP-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/FullSizeRender_93d904cb-8b0d-4927-8527-131f78265a71.heic?v=1747250665"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-asiaticum-ogon-nishiki","title":"Trachelospermum asiaticum 'Ogon Nishiki'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'Ogon Nishiki' is Asian star jasmine dressed for a festival. New leaves break coppery orange and scarlet, then settle through gold and cream into a marbled patchwork of green, yellow and orange, so an established plant carries three or four colors at once and shifts them with the season. Cold weather pushes the older foliage toward red. The leaves are small, thick and evergreen on wiry stems, and the effect from across a garden is less like a variegated vine than like a slow fire moving over the ground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe genus name is built from the Greek \u003cem\u003etrachelos\u003c\/em\u003e, a neck, and \u003cem\u003esperma\u003c\/em\u003e, a seed, for the narrow-necked seeds, and the epithet \u003cem\u003easiaticum\u003c\/em\u003e places the species in Japan and Korea, where the plant grows wild. \u003cem\u003eTrachelospermum\u003c\/em\u003e belongs to Apocynaceae, the dogbane family, in the company of oleander, periwinkle and frangipani, and shares the family habit of bleeding a milky latex from any cut stem. The cultivar name is Japanese: ogon, gold, and nishiki, brocade. For once that is not nursery hyperbole. Brocade is exactly the right word for the way the color is worked through the leaf.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLeft to run, the plant makes a dense evergreen groundcover a foot or two deep, rooting as the stems travel. Given a wall, a post or a trellis, the same plant will twine upward to ten or fifteen feet. Small white flowers come in summer, fragrant in the manner of the confederate jasmines but far more sparingly on a variegated plant than on a green one, and anyone buying this cultivar for perfume has bought the wrong star jasmine. The foliage is the whole point. One note for the herbal-minded: the related \u003cem\u003eTrachelospermum jasminoides\u003c\/em\u003e carries a long history in Chinese medicine as luo shi teng, but that tradition belongs to the other species and we make no claim for this one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSite 'Ogon Nishiki' in full sun to part shade, in ordinary well-drained soil, where the color can be read against something plain: dark evergreens, gravel, a weathered fence, the foot of a brick wall. The variegation burns brightest in sun and drifts back toward green in deep shade, so trade a little leaf scorch for the better brocade if the choice comes up. Hardy through USDA zones 7 to 10, evergreen throughout. Two honest cautions come with the color. Green shoots will sometimes revert and, being more vigorous than the variegated growth, need cutting out as they appear or they will quietly take the plant over. And the milky sap can irritate skin, so wear gloves when cutting the vine back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005512307,"sku":"TRAC-ASIA-OGON-NISH-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Trachelospermumasiaticum_OgonNishiki.webp?v=1787185951"},{"product_id":"trachelospermum-jasminoides-mandianum","title":"Trachelospermum jasminoides \"Mandianum\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eConfederate jasmine, or star jasmine, is one of the best-loved evergreen vines of the warm South, prized for glossy dark leaves and clouds of small, star-shaped, intensely fragrant flowers. The common form wears white blooms, but this selection, which Woodlanders offers as 'Mandianum' and which may be the cultivar 'Star of Toscana', opens flowers in shades of creamy to clear yellow, an unusual and welcome color in the tribe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTrachelospermum jasminoides is native to China and Japan, a twining, self-supporting climber that clothes a fence, trellis, arbor, or post in dense, evergreen green and, in late spring and summer, in fragrant bloom. The name jasminoides means jasmine-like, for the scent and the star-shaped flowers, though the plant belongs not to the true jasmines but to the dogbane family, Apocynaceae. The Confederate name is variously traced to the Malay Confederation and to the American South, where the vine is so beloved.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBeyond the garden, star jasmine has a long medicinal life in East Asia. The dried stems, known in traditional Chinese medicine as luo shi teng and recorded in the Chinese Pharmacopoeia, have been decocted to ease rheumatic and joint pain and to soothe a sore throat, a use shared in Korea and Japan and now studied for anti-inflammatory activity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden, give 'Mandianum' good, well-drained soil and a sunny to partly shaded spot, and set the vine against a fence, trellis, arbor, or post for the twining stems to climb. Site where the powerful evening fragrance can be caught, near a path, a door, or a seat, and let the yellow-flowered star jasmine bring both scent and an uncommon color to a warm-climate garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058005577843,"sku":"TRAC-JASM-MAND-01G","price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1550.jpg?v=1720141500"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/star-jasmine.oembed","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}