Arabian Jasmine Blooms

The Rains yesterday evening brought joy to my potted garden and the Arabian Jasmine bloomed filling the air with its scent.Arabian Jasmine also known as Jasmine Sambac,Maid of Orleans is a evergreen woody shrub that can be easily grown in pots or containers.The leaves are Oval they are light green when young but turn to a shade of dark green as it matures.The flowers are star shaped and  white in color and often bloom in singles or in threes.The flowers are very fragrant with a sweet  scent.The plant has bushy growth it can be grown with  the support of a trellis or you can trim the stems to keep the plant short and in shape.A trim down before the summers start encourages new growth and more blooms on the plant also use cow manure to fertilize the plant.Arabian Jasmine is used in religious ceremonies,garland making and also in teas and perfumes.One of the joys of owing a jasmine plant is that not only do you get enjoy the flowers but also its wonderful scent.

 

                     

                                                      Close Up Photo of Arabian Jasmine Cluster

Beautiful Green Foliage of Arabian Jasmine  with flowers and buds

Arabian Jasmine Flowers in cluster of threes 

Arabian Jasmine flower

                                             

Single Arabian Jasmine Flower

Close Up of Jasmine Buds

Arabian Jasmine growing in pot.

Fresh Arabian Jasmine Flowers

Making a Garland of Arabian Jasmine Flowers.

Happy Gardening !!

The Scent of Sweet Jasmines.

Come Summer  and my jasmine plants are in full bloom with its sweet fragrance perfuming the air at night.I have many kinds of jasmines growing on my terrace in pots my favourite  being the Jasmine Sambac(Madan Mogra).The blooms on this plant are almost double in size the buds are long and pointed and the scent is just wonderful. The plants are propagated by cuttings mines i got from the nursery .Once in a month i boil a heaped teaspoon of black tea let it cool down and then pour this tea in the jasmine plants.

Off recently i noticed the leaves of my jasmine sambac plant were turning yellow and curly just what i suspected aphid attack i happened to look on the underside of a leaf and they they were brown woody looking aphids in clusters,and guess what i had to seclude my jasmine plant from the rest of the plants cut off the entire plant making sure none of these pests were left behind,after stripping off all the leaves of my beauty i gave her a good wash and sprayed some turmeric and neem oil mix on it.And hoped and prayed these damned aphids do not come back with the new growth and luckily they didn't.This is what she looks like now.

I have a crepe jasmine plant which has tiny double petaled flowers and the  scent is just like that of a gardenia but im not sure a bout its exact botanical name.Here is a picture of the plant in full bloom.

i will post some more pictures of other jasmines as well.So whats your favourite jasmine variety to grow?