Jasmine for Six on Saturday

Have I told you about my favourite cherry tree? No?

No sensible person buys plants a few months before moving, but that's what I did this past autumn.  Those end-of-season sales, they make me giddy.

In addition to the weigela-labelled stick mentioned last week, I also bought a coupla jasmine (& maybe a few other things).

I'd never had odoriferous jasmine before!




1.  The bed's ready.

The jasmine were a stunning burgundy when they arrived, perfect for the wisteria trellis in our new garden.  Though the wisteria itself is still too young to bloom, the contrasting foliage would look great together, plus all those jasmine scented ingresses & egresses through the back gate.

Wisteria trellis at the ready.

2.  I thought there were only two . . .

Somewhere between old garden & new, though, the pair of jasmine turned into 3 pots of woody plants with dark red elliptic leaves.  Both my memory & my receipts said there should be two.

Was there cuckoo in the mix?

Clematis & cuckoo.

In the end, the alleged jasmine in a slightly wider pot got planted with a rogue clematis at the back door, the expectation being that a jasmine scented patio would follow.


3. Jasmine Red Leaf.

Then the wisteria jasmine started looking not-so-great.

After planting

Death didn't seem imminent, so perhaps research could prevent a jasmine murder.  Or two.


4. First bloom.

At least the clematis jasmine had buds.  But when the first one opened . . .

Cuckoo in the nest.

That is no jasmine.


5.  The tag.

It looked like a magenta witch hazel blossom.  Which, come to think of it, was exactly my thought on the loropetalum tag photo.

Cuckoo ID.

And that tag was actually attached to . . .


6.  Another end-of-season sale stick.

. . . sitting on the stump to remind me to check it for signs of life.  Of which, so far, there have been none.

Not a loropetalum.

How it got the loropetalum tag on it, or even what this stick really is - anybody's guess.

Turning green.

And, of course, now I know that these particular jasmines are burgundy only in the winter.  Plant murder avoided.

Out w/daffs, in w/tulips.

So now that my place as most well informed SoSer is confirmed, tarry on over to Big Boss Man's blog for his Six & links in his comment section to other Six on Saturday blogs from around the world.

Thanks for stopping by!