Asiatic Jasmine Plants

Asian / Chinese Jasmine Plants, Trachelospermum asiaticum

Asiatic Jasmine has smaller, darker leaves and less impressive flowers than its sibling Star Jasmine, Trachelospermum jasminoides.

A lovely climbing plant for covering a fence, Asiatic Jasmine is generally considered the best choice for cold Northern and Eastern locations.

Flowers mid to late summer.

Browse our other Trachelospermum varieties, true jasmine plants, or our full range of climbers.

Features

• Glossy evergreen leaves
• Medium growth to 6m x 3m
• Small white flowers with a yellow centre
• Delicious sweet scent
• Blooms June to August
• Full sun or partial shade
• Hardiness rating H4
• RHS Award of Garden Merit

Growing Trachelospermum asiaticum

It needs an element of shelter and will do best away from drying winds, preferably against a warm wall. It performs beautifully in partial shade.

A good container plant, it needs a well-drained moisture retentive soil but isn't fussy about pH. It'll require support and is good grown as a pillar or over an arch as long as the site isn't too exposed.

Garden Design Ideas

Place somewhere near where you sit so that you can pick up the delicious scent of this gorgeous jasmine, perhaps trailed over an arch by a table in a small garden. Clematis looks fabulous planted through jasmine, which will hide the legginess of the clematis.

Jasmine looks wonderfully Mediterranean against box: in a narrow border you could create a low hedge and train jasmine to go along a wall behind or plant in a container and place alongside a topiary box structure. You could also make a feature of a scented garden containing other fragrant climbers such as honeysuckle and sweet-smelling plants such as complementary-coloured roses, phlox, freesias and sweet alyssum.

History & Trivia

There have been several punch ups between taxonomists over the classification of this jasmine, which has gone by the handles Trachelospermum divaricatum, T. asiaticum majus, and T. crocostemon.
Don't confuse it with Jasminum polyanthum, which is also known as Chinese Jasmine.