confederate jasmine


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Noun1.confederate jasmine - evergreen Chinese woody climber with shiny dark green leaves and intensely fragrant white flowers
genus Trachelospermum, Trachelospermum - genus of Asiatic woody vines with milky sap in leaves and stems
vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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Confederate jasmine is a vigorous vine, but I have found it to be much tidier and much more manageable than wisteria or ivy, and yet it willingly softens hard surfaces.
Trachelospermum jasminoides - confederate jasmine - is a beautiful climbing evergreen that can be grown over a sheltered wall or fence to make a backdrop of foliage.
Now, it's magnolia season and before that it was Confederate Jasmine season and before that it was camellia season.
After expanding the pool deck, he chose fragrant Confederate jasmine for the pergola columns and slow-growing Sandankwa viburnum around the perimeter of the pool so that views of the lovely rear yard would not be obstructed.
Within days, a part of me that had been dormant was awakened by the twilight odor of the primitive cycads, the perfume of Confederate jasmine. I reared my two children there, duplicating many of my childhood pleasures.
Trachelospermum mandianum (Confederate jasmine), a popular houseplant that tolerates warmth, has yellow, vinca-like flowers that smell as delightful as heliotrope.
A new arch was planted with Lady Banks climbing roses and Confederate jasmine, and a central boxwood square filled with Asiatic jasmine was reconfigured to afford space for white pansies in winter and white impatiens and red begonias in summer.
A multicolored picket fence and arbor display a profusion of blossoms, the sweet scent of Confederate jasmine as enticing as the visual delight of purple queen's wreath.