star jasmine
Trachelospermum jasminoides
RHS AGM 1993
USDA zones8 to 10
SunHandles full sun to partial sun
WaterHandles moderate to moist soil
Size3 to 20 feet tall3 to 6 feet wide
- Growth rate
- Rapid
- Habit
- Climbing
- Bloom season
- Spring, summer, autumn, winter
- Bloom color
- Creamy white
- Foliage color
- Green, purple/lavender
- Soil types
- Sand, loam, chalk
- Soil pH
- Acid, alkaline, neutral
Garden uses
Attracts
Notes
Star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) is a vine for privacy screens, containers, and borders. It is hardy to USDA zone 8, or down to 10°F (-12°C). This plant likes full or part sun and average to moist, sandy, loamy, or chalky soil. Deer rarely make it their first choice. Sweetly fragrant white flowers look like spinning stars and open in early summer and now and then after. The glossy evergreen leaves stay green all year, and bees visit the blooms.
Pairs well with Pineapple sage, Fountain grass, and Mexican petunia.
Native range
Asia, Hainan, Nansei-shoto, and Ogasawara-shoto.