Butterscotch Jessamine – Jasmine

Gelsemium sempervirens ‘Butterscotch’ – Syn. Gelsemium rankanii

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-9b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Vine

Height or Length at Maturity: 12’+

Width at Maturity: 2-4′
Spacing: 3-6′ apart to cover fences

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

Growth Rate: Fast to Very Fast

Flower Color: Bright Yellow
Flower Type: Single

Flower Size: 1 to 1.5″
Flowering Period: Late Winter, Early Spring, Fall

Fragrant Flowers: Yes!

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: 5.5 – 8.0

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

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

Description

Unique in that it reblooms, ‘Butterscotch’ Yellow Jessamine, also called Jasmine, produces LOADS of fragrant, bright golden-yellow funnel shaped flowers in late winter to early spring and then again in fall! This cultivar flowers about 3 weeks later than Carolina Jasmine. The flowers contrast nicely with the shiny, dark green evergreen leaves that cover its dense, twining stems.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 12 feet in length and 2 to 4 feet wide, Butterscotch Jessamine is ideal for use to climb along the top of fences, on a trellis, on a mailbox, over a pergola or arbor or any other structure that might benefit from or support the vine. Jessamine 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. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, yellow theme gardens,

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 6 feet apart on fences

Growing Preferences

Butterscotch Jessamine is very easy to grow and tolerates a wide range of soils, even somewhat boggy soils, however is drought tolerant when established. It prefers a consistently moist well-drained soil of average fertility. We have it growing in sunny and partially shaded sites and it does equally as well in both exposures.

Helpful Articles

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

How To Plant & Care For Jessamine Vines

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

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