What Is Winter Jasmine?

Winter jasmine is best grown in the zones 6-8. It grows three feet tall and wide spreading. It is a deciduous type shrub. It requires full sun which means all day and full-west sun. The deer do not like to be around this shrub. It attracts bees with nectar and or with pollen.

The winter jasmine has several special attributes, which are, it is a mounding shrub that has slender cascading that has three-part leaves and this will come in the summer. The blossoms of the winter jasmine are unscented, showy, tubular yellow ones that are on the naked twigs and this goes on for many weeks in late winter.

Winter jasmine has several different design ideas, which are, this shrub needs to be place close to a south facing wall and this encourages early bloom, or this shrub can be planted on an embankment or to put it on top of a wall, so the cascading habit can be show off very pretty. The dappling stems can be allowed to layer and colonize the ground as well as roof gardens.

There are several low-water shrubs that are related to the winter jasmine, which are, the showy jasmine that grows in zones 6 - 10, which has alternate evergreen leaves, which most jasmines do not have and their yellow flowers comes out in the summer. The primrose jasmine which grows in zones 8-10 and it has larger pale evergreen foliage on taller, rampart stems, and the primrose jasmine has double light yellow blossoms and they are in the late winter.