Garden jasmine (or mock-orange) has long been famous for its medicinal properties, but it is more often grown as garden decoration. For better aesthetics, it is planted next to blue and purple flowers - lavender, delphinium, spirea, and hydrangea. One of the advantages of this shrub is the ability to adapt to weather conditions. Garden jasmine can grow both in partial shade and in the sun, unpretentious and undemanding to care. It tolerates high humidity and drought well. Below we will tell you how to grow jasmine on your site, and you will see that this requires very little effort.
Planting and care recommendations
How to grow a strong and healthy jasmine tree? First, you need to choose the right time and place for planting. Agricultural experts advise planting garden jasmine in early spring and give the following recommendations:
1. It is advisable to choose a site without drafts with sufficient lighting. The more light, the more spectacular the bush looks.
2. Jasmine roots do not like over-watering, so it is better to plant it on a slight elevation.
3. If you plan to create a hedge, plant the plants at a distance of 50 cm (20 in) from each other. They cannot be planted closer, since the bush has an extensive root system.
4. The depth of the planting hole should be no more than 80 cm (31 in), the diameter - about 50 cm (20 in), so that the roots do not become deformed.
5. The hole prepared for planting should be left for several days to warm up in the sun's rays.
6. Then fill the hole with a mixture of stones and sand as a drainage layer and add 50 g (1.8 oz) of nitrophosphate to improve the survival rate of the bush.
7. Prepare a soil mixture of peat and black soil with the addition of ash, sand and humus. Fill it into the hole, forming a mound.
8. Place the seedling on the mound, spreading the roots. It is important to deepen the sprout, but avoid immersing the root collar in the soil more than 3 cm (1.2 in). Add soil and compact the hole.
9. Moisten the soil with 2 buckets of water.
10. Mulch the soil with sawdust, peat or pine needles.
Reproduction methods
If you want to grow a hedge from a single ornamental shrub planted on the site, you first need to choose a method of plant propagation. Possible options:
1. By seeds - into open ground or a box with subsequent transplantation.
2. By cuttings: take cuttings in early June and plant them in a greenhouse or in open ground.
3. By shoots: in the fall, separate strong and sturdy shoots from the mother plant, and in the spring, after wintering indoors or in a greenhouse, plant them in the area.
4. By dividing the bush: in the fall, dig up the plant and very carefully divide the root system into several parts so that each part has at least 2-3 stems.
