Star Jasmine Vine

Trachelospermum jasminoides

Other Names: Confederate Jasmine Vine

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 8a-10b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Vine

Height or Length at Maturity: 12’+

Width at Maturity: 2-4′
Spacing: 3-4′ apart to cover fences

Growth Habit / Form: Climbing, Dense, Spreading/Trailing, Twining, Twisted Branching, Upright

Growth Rate: Fast to Very Fast

Flower Color: White
Flower Type: Single, cross-shaped

Flower Size: .5″ in clusters
Flowering Period: Late Spring to Mid-Summer

Fragrant Flowers: Yes! Strong orange-blossom scent

Foliage Color: Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Part Shade

Water Needs: Average, low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Drainage: Well Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.5

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

If you want to enhance the sensory appeal of your spring and summer garden it doesn’t get much better than the Star Jasmine Vine, formerly and also known as Confederate Jasmine. This fast growing vine with lustrous, dark green evergreen foliage produces a profusion of highly fragrant, white, star-shaped flowers in clusters from spring through early summer that fill the air in your garden with sweet aroma. Climbs up to 15 feet in a relatively short period of time.

Landscape & Garden Uses

With vines growing 10 feet or more long and 2 to 4 feet wide, Star Jasmine is an ideal selection for use to climb along the top of fences, on a trellis, on a mailbox, over an arbor or any other structure that might benefit from or support the flowering vine. It can also be useful as a ground cover for slopes or banks where it can sprawl and naturalize or to climb into smaller trees where early flowering is especially noticeable.

Spacing Recommendations: 2 to 3 feet apart to cover fences

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 7a, where this Jasmine variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring. That said, this vine grows quickly so you might have to cut it back some before bringing it indoors.

Growing Preferences

Star Jasmine tolerates a wide range of soils. It will tolerate somewhat damp soils but is also quite drought tolerant when established. It prefers growing in sun but will tolerate some afternoon shade. In warmer climates the vine would appreciate a little break from the hottest part of the afternoon sun. Avoid pruning prior to the flowering season or you will cut off the flower buds. Fertilize once a year with a well balanced slow release fertilizer.

Helpful Articles

Click on a link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, fertilize, prune and water Jasmine vines…

How To Plant & Care Confederate Jasmine Vines

How To Train Vines To Grow On A Fence, Pole, Trellis Or Wall

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