Please help with Jasmine!

[danny22]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the forum and I just have a quick question if anyone can answer it!

I'm new to pretty much all aspects of gardening, but I'm very keen, so much so that a shop near where i work gave me two jasmine plants they were going to throw out because they thought they were dead.

I'm afraid I don't know much about which type of jasmine it is. It grows around a looped wire and has tiny white buds - not very helpful, i know, but its all I got :) There is still green on them, they look alive, some buds are dead and some leaves are but there are living ones also. Does anyone have any suggestions for how I could try to save them? I have repotted them - when I took them out of their old pots it was clear they needed more space!!!

Any suggestions are appreciated :)

[danny22]

just found out, its called chinese jasmine - jasmine polyanthum. if that helps! i have watered it, compost is damp but not waterlogged. should i cut away the buds? im thinking of taking a couple of cuttings off each, so even if they do die i might be able to grow something new from them!

[Val]

To get a very quick, informative answer put "jasmine polyanthum" into a search engine (Google) and learn everything you need to know. I don't know where you are in the UK but I'm in Seattle, USA, much the same climate as London, and this plant grows like gang busters out in my garden.

Val

[Phisherman]

I carefully nursed 5 winter jasmine plants for 2 years. They should be in bloom about now, but the deer have stripped them to the ground!

[jeanthegardener]

Hi newbie here. Somebody told me that beer and birth control pills are good fertilizers. Is this true? Have any of you guys tried it?

Btw, I'm glad to find a gardening forum finally! I hope I'll have fun with you guys.

[enigma]

jeanthegardener wrote in news: [e-mail]:

nope, not true. beer is good for attracting slugs & snails. there are far more useful things for your garden than crackpot concoctions. compost is the best thing for soil improvement. seaweed is a good fertilizer, especially for tomatoes.

there are a few unkind posters, but mostly people are helpful here lee