Jasmine for Mum

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Jasmine for Mum

The day after Mothering Sunday I went to a local superstore with my brother-in-law to get a few things but really to show him the store.

He is from Spain, like my wife, but has come to the UK after the death of his mum a month or so ago.

While we were in the store I noticed there was a stall with plants for Mother’s Day that hadn’t been sold & were reduced by 50%. I had a look at them & noticed there were several Jasmine plants that had been trained around hoops set in their pots. The plants all looked nice & healthy & were full of buds so I decided to get one for my wife. During the previous few weeks she had mentioned Jasmine on several occasions.

A few years ago we had one growing up a Dragon Tree in our living room but it got too big & had to be removed.

Jasmine plant just bought on living room table:

Jasmine & Amaryllis flowering on living room table:

This plant is now on our living room table while we enjoy the flowers & the scent that fills the room. I don’t know yet what I will do with it once the flowers have finished. If I put it in a bigger pot then it will grow much bigger & we will have a repetition of the problem we had some years ago! So I’m thinking of trying to keep it in the pot it is in at present & just feed it, particularly with a high potash fertilizer. That should stop it from growing too much & becoming a problem & I hope it will be encouraged to flower again next year.

Jasmine flowering on living room table today:

My wife loves to SEE flowers & loves their perfume but she has absolutely NO IDEA how to grow them! She is always asking me if such & such a plant can be grown indoors on the bedroom windowsills, invariably I have to say no for this or that reason & she is often disappointed.

She would like this Jasmine plant to grow indoors & flower for longer so she can enjoy the flowers & their scent. But I have had to tell her the flowers will be over in a few weeks at most & won’t flower again till next year – if I can keep it alive till then. She asked me if it would grow bigger once the flowers are over. I replied it will – especially if I repot it!

I hate to keep disappointing her but the only plants suitable for growing indoors she doesn’t seem to like! I ALWAYS end up looking like a “spoil sport”! So what can I do?

2 Apr, 2017
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Steragram

First award yourself top marks for love and patience, and then award her the same....
Does she like orchids? they wouldn't get too big and they do flower for quite a long time.
Would love a sniff of your lovely jasmine!

3 Apr, 2017

Balcony

Thanks Stera! We got a small Orchid just after Christmas - reduced from £8 to 50p! Only the majority of the flowers fell off in the first couple of days the few that managed to hang on for a week of so were lovely but unfortunately they also fell off a few days later & we were left with a bare stem! It seem if you cut this back it may flower again but ours didn't! :-((

To top it all the leaves started dying back as well - I thought it was going to die - our first ever Orchid wouldn't have lasted a month if it had! Fortunately the last remaining leaf is still alive & healthy & I look forward to seeing it flower again around the end of the year.

3 Apr, 2017