Winter Flowering Jasmine Plants

Jasmine 'Nudiflorum'

Winter Jasmine (Jasminum Nudiflorum) is a popular shrubby-climber that flowers in Winter, about December till March, on bare wood.
Well grown, it can be so covered in yellow blooms that the slim green stems are almost invisible.

The unscented flowers are followed by pinnate dark green leaves on delicate arching stems.

This plant is on the border between a lanky shrub and a climber: it needs the support of wires or trellis, with yearly tying in place, to properly climb.

Winter Jasmine looks best when used as a trailing plant, tumbling down from a higher to lower level.

Let's be blunt: winter jasmine is a one-trick pony.
When it's not in flower, it's a fairly dull mass of twiggy green stems that always looks untidy, which suits informal garden styles but struggles to fit into a neat formal design.

"Gardeners put up with this gawky, sprawling shrub for one reason and one reason only – its crop of yellow flowers borne at the dawn of the New Year. They are welcome and pleasing, yes, but the rest of the plant has about as much panache as a bundle of pick-up sticks."
- Dan Cooper, The Frustrated Gardener

Have a look at the rest of our range of jasmine plants

Great for your garden:

Winter Jasmine is very tough, fully hardy, and will grow in the worst soils, as long as they are well drained. Like Buddleia, you could scatter its seeds into cracks in an old brick wall and have seedlings succeed.

But for lush growth and masses of flowers, it prefers soil with plenty of organic matter, just either side of neutral pH, that is both moist and free-draining. Full sun is ideal, but partial shade is fine.

Jasminum 'Nudiflorum' is the perfect climbing plant to brighten up a dull corner in winter. It can be used as a deciduous climber, with the support of vine eyes and wires or trellis, or allowed to scramble over low walls and stumps. The graceful arching stems are bright green all year round and the flowers, which bloom from December until March, are a pretty bright yellow.

Features

• Deciduous
• Arching stems make for a mounded shrub or shrubby climber
• Looks great trailing downwards
• Medium growth to 8' at maturity
• Introduced from China in 1844 and naturalized in France
• Delightful bright, yellow flowers on bare stems
• Full hardy to -15c
• Unscented
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Look out for:

Very little - Jasminum 'Nudiflorum' is very hardy and healthy and rarely causes any problems.

About Winter Flowering Jasmine

Previously classified as Jasminum sieboldianum. Can be seen in full effect at the RHS garden, Hyde Hall.

This jasmine has been cultivated in western China for centuries, and was introduced to the West in 1843 by Scotsman Robert Fortune. Fortune was employed by the then Horticultural Society and East India Company, most particularly to collect tea plants for transport to India.

Like several famous plant hunters of his day, his story is replete with tales of pirates, villains, and working in disguise as a Chinese man in China.
He was fluent in Mandarin and shaved his head, leaving a pigtail in the Han style, which apparently amused the locals enough to prevent him from being arrested as a spy.

Sensible people have suggested that significant parts of Fortune's Chinese adventures were, ahem, embellished in order to sell books and promote tea, which is typical of sensible people, always ruining a good yarn.