This Winter Jasmine or Jasminum Nudiflorum is just flowering on a neighbours, southwest facing, brick wall. Flowering a bit earlier this year it should flower through to March. The result shown is as a result of regular pruning and the stems have been tied in.

• Left to it own devices the winter jasmine will form a 2 foot high mound as it won’t twine and is unable to climb unaided.
• Cuttings from the arching stems can be taken in early summer.
• Although deciduous the young stems are green and the flowers are born on bare stems giving the overall impression of an evergreen.
• Unlike indoor Jasmine this plant has little or no fragrance
• The AGM has been awarded to Jasminum Nudiflorum and it also has an apt Chinese name ‘Welcoming Spring Flower’