Variegated Confederate Jasmine

Trachelspermum jasminoides ‘Variegated’

Other Names: Star Jasmine

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, Creamy Yellow, White

Fragrant Foliage: No

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Part Shade, Filtered Sun

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 – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Humidity, Insect

Description

The Variegated Confederate Jasmine is a fast growing evergreen flowering vine that produces abundant clusters of highly fragrant, star-shaped white flowers from spring through early summer that fill the garden with a delicious, sweet aroma. The fragrance is impossible to describe, but it’s very nice and not overpowering. Due to the brightly variegated white, yellow, and green leaves, the flowers aren’t quite as noticeable on this variety as they are on the green leave varieties, but they are just as fragrant and you get the extra bonus with the variegated foliage that will brighten up your garden year round. Excellent for growing on trellises, pergolas, fences and other structures and also as a spiller in pots, window boxes and hanging baskets.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing quickly to 12 feet or more in height or length and 2 to 4 feet wide, Variegated Confederate Jasmine is ideal for use to climb along the top of fences, on a trellis, on a mailbox, or over an arbor, arch or any other structure that will support this magnificent fragrant vine. It can also be useful as a ground cover for slopes or embankments where it will sprawl and naturalize, or to climb into smaller trees where early flowering is especially noticeable. To better and more often enjoy the wonderful fragrance, make sure to plant this one near windows or outdoor living spaces. Needless to say, the fragrant flowers make this vine a must in sensory gardens!

Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart along 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

Variegated Confederate Jasmine is exceptionally easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. It will tolerate somewhat damp soils but is also quite drought tolerant when established. In warmer climates the vine might appreciate a little break from the afternoon sun. Responds well to pruning or shearing for shaping purposes or to limit size. Avoid pruning prior to the flowering season or you will cut off the flower buds.

Helpful Articles

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

How To Plant & Care Confederate Jasmine Vines

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

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