Freedom Lives

May 30, 2004

Star Jasmine

As Rachel pointed out not too long ago the Star or Confederate Jasmine is not a jasmine at all. It is wonderfully fragrant and quite an aggressive plant in warm climes where it is also evergreen.
Like a lot of nice smelling and looking things it is also poison to ingrest so keep your dogs and cats away from it.
We had four we planted quite some time ago on either side of the walk leading up to the house. For a couple of years we maintained them as bushes then one day I got the bright idea of buying two arbors to straddle the walkway. What you see below is the result.
Yes you can walk under those, they are over seven feet high.


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They usually go into bloom around mid-april which they did but oddly enough they still have some blooms though not as many as 4 weeks ago.
This is what they look like close up.


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