By Janerose
United Kingdom 
Is my winter flowering jasmine dead?
We moved into our new house November last year.
The flowering jasmine was in full bloom and is over 20 feet tall growing up a trellis against the back of the house (south facing).
It appears dead - dried out and withered in much the same way a clematis appears before it flowers.
Has the prolonged winter/frost done for it or is there any hope?
20 Jun, 2010
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Very unlikely to be the winter that put paid to it - you don't say where you live, but could it be a drought problem (in the south, it could well be). Cut it back to see if that generates new growth. Unless your plant isn't winter Jasmine at all, but a more tender, twining form which did get killed by the winter. Usual time for major flowering for winter Jasmine is early Spring, with just a few in the autumn.
20 Jun, 2010