Trachelospermum jasminoides – Star Jasmine (Fragrant)

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🎁 GIFTING BADGE
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🎁 Perfect Gift For:
✔ Housewarming ✔ Balcony Gardeners
✔ Anniversary ✔ Fragrance Lovers
✔ New Home ✔ Festival Gift

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About This Plant
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Star Jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) is one of the most rewarding evergreen climbers you can grow in India. Its glossy dark-green leaves stay handsome all year, and from late spring the plant disappears under hundreds of small white flowers shaped like five-bladed pinwheels. The scent is the real reason people plant it: sweet, clean and jasmine-like, it stays modest through the day and then pours out after sunset, filling a balcony or courtyard on warm evenings. It twines willingly up a trellis, railing or wire, but is just as happy trailing from a hanging basket, covering a bank as groundcover, or being clipped into a low fragrant hedge.

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✨ Key Benefits
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• 🌙 Evening fragrance — strongest exactly when you are outdoors
• 🍃 Evergreen — keeps its glossy foliage through the year, bronzing attractively in cold
• 🧗 Versatile — climber, groundcover, hanging basket or clipped hedge
• 🌡️ Unusually wide climate range for a fragrant climber — hills to coastal plains
• ✅ Low-maintenance and long-lived once established; few pest problems

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🌿 Care Instructions
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☀️ Sunlight: Full sun to partial shade. At least 4–6 hours of direct sun gives the heaviest flowering; in very hot plains, light afternoon shade keeps foliage from scorching.
💧 Watering: Keep the soil evenly moist through spring and summer, allowing the top inch to dry between waterings. Reduce clearly in winter. Established plants tolerate short dry spells.
🟫 Soil: Any well-drained garden soil enriched with compost. For pots, use loam + compost + a handful of perlite or coarse sand. Avoid waterlogging.
🌡️ Temperature: Minimum -5°C, maximum 42°C. Comfortable across hill stations, subtropical plains and coastal regions.
🧪 Fertiliser: A balanced feed once in early spring and again after the main flush. Avoid heavy nitrogen — it produces leaves at the cost of flowers.
✂️ Pruning: Trim right after flowering to shape and to encourage dense growth. It takes hard pruning well.

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📏 Size Guide
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📦 At Delivery: Young established plant in a 2.5–4 inch pot, depending on the size you choose.
🌱 After 2 Years: Roughly 1.5–2.5 m of growth with support, flowering well.
🌳 Fully Grown: 3–6 m as a climber; kept to 60–90 cm as a clipped hedge.
↔️ Space Needed: A trellis, railing or wire support; or a 10–12 inch pot for balcony growing.

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📅 Seasonal Availability & Behaviour
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🌸 Spring (Feb – Apr): New growth pushes out and flower buds set — the main flush begins.
☀️ Summer (May – Jul): Peak flowering and peak fragrance. Water consistently.
🍂 Autumn (Sep – Nov): Growth slows; a good time to prune and train.
❄️ Winter (Dec – Jan): Stays evergreen; leaves may bronze in cold, which is normal.

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🌍 Climate Zone Compatibility
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Suited to a genuinely wide band of Indian climates:

• ⛰️ Cold Hills (1°C – 25°C) and Cool Tropical Highland (0°C – 25°C)
• 🏔️ Subtropical Hills (5°C – 28°C) and Subtropical Highland (-5°C – 30°C)
• 🌦️ Subtropical Monsoon (8°C – 38°C) and Subtropical Humid (8°C – 42°C)
• 🌴 Tropical Monsoon Coastal (14°C – 38°C) and Tropical Wet-Dry Savanna (11°C – 40°C)

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🏠 Perfect For
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👤 Who: Anyone who wants fragrance rather than just foliage — and a climber that behaves.
📍 Where: Balcony railings, terrace trellises, boundary walls, pergolas, or a pot by a bedroom window.
💡 Why: Few plants give this much scent for this little care, and it stays green all year.

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📦 What You Get
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✔ One healthy, well-rooted Star Jasmine plant in your chosen pot size
✔ Hand-picked at our nursery and packed to travel safely
✔ Care guidance with your order

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❓ Frequently Asked Questions
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Is it the same as the jasmine used for garlands?
No. Star Jasmine is Trachelospermum, a different plant from Jasminum sambac (mogra). It is grown for its climbing habit and evening scent rather than for picking.

Will it grow on a balcony?
Yes. Give it a 10–12 inch pot and something to twine around, and it will flower happily.

Does it need support?
To climb, yes — a trellis, wire or railing. Without support it spreads as attractive groundcover instead.

Why are my leaves turning bronze in winter?
That is a normal cold response, not a problem. Colour returns as temperatures rise.