Bloomed exceptionally well for me this year.
Started blooming around late June, peaked in August and still threw out some bloom i...Read Moren November.
This Gardenia is exposed to about 7-8 hours of direct sun during the summer time and has no burns here in Portland, Oregon.
Easy to root from cutting also.
The Frostproof Gardenia does pretty well in my Zone 7A garden in Petersburg, Virginia. I bought a one-gallon pot of Frostproof about fi...Read Moreve years ago, and found that there were four little plants in the pot. I planted a couple of them (and gave the others away), and the one that gets more direct sun grew faster and blooms more than the one in the shade. The leaves are narrower than that of most gardenias, and so less lush, but still pretty. The blossoms are full and fragrant. The two gardenias managed through our winters fine until this last winter, 2015, when it got unusually cold, and they both got frost-burned. The larger gardenia in the sunnier location was more exposed and burned worse. The foliage has fully recovered, but there have been almost no blossoms this season. This next winter, I will take greater precautions if the temperatures drop below twenty degrees.
This seems easy to grow--it's my first and only gardenia and I've had it for a couple years. I have it outside, in full sun on the south ...Read Moreside of my house in my naturally extremely sandy soil. It gets supplemental watering only during severe droughts--I basically don't mess with it other than raking in one "dose" of Hollytone around it in the spring. It seems to have a fairly short flowering period, but it is a handsome evergreen shrub that smells like heaven when it does bloom. I am planning on taking cuttings this spring to spread more of this plant around my yard.
Frostproof gardenias have done really well for me in New York City. Mine survived one winter that went down to 5F and still look green to...Read Moreday after a low temperature of 12F this winter in early January. I get lots of blooms in late spring and sometimes I get scattered blooms in the summer as well. I dont give it any extra care.
It seems like they start to get light damage below 10F, but bounce back well making them great in zone 7 and up.
I planted the Frostproof in March 2011. The location I chose to put it in was partial to full shade and as of August 2011 it has done v...Read Moreery well. I water it lightly every day and it has been happy with that. Living in the deep South I only have to worry about the cold temps that can hit my area (which can hit in the low 20's) so I won't know until Winter time how bad it can be bothered by the cold. I am hoping with it being planted under a canopy of oak trees that it will be okay. It flowered once for me this Summer and the flowers were pretty. I love Gardenia plants and have several of the Mystery Gardenia also and they have done very well and gotten large.
This plant performed quite well for our nursery in our display gardens for the past three years. It does discolor a little bit during the...Read More winter but has still survived even in an unprotected location. Blooming is heaviest in early to mid-June with a light sprinkling of repeat blooms through summer.
I find this plant prone to nematodes and root diseases, giving them a lifespan of 2 to 3 years.
Bloomed exceptionally well for me this year.
Started blooming around late June, peaked in August and still threw out some bloom i...Read More
The Frostproof Gardenia does pretty well in my Zone 7A garden in Petersburg, Virginia. I bought a one-gallon pot of Frostproof about fi...Read More
This seems easy to grow--it's my first and only gardenia and I've had it for a couple years. I have it outside, in full sun on the south ...Read More
Frostproof gardenias have done really well for me in New York City. Mine survived one winter that went down to 5F and still look green to...Read More
I planted the Frostproof in March 2011. The location I chose to put it in was partial to full shade and as of August 2011 it has done v...Read More
This plant performed quite well for our nursery in our display gardens for the past three years. It does discolor a little bit during the...Read More
Mine is about a 18" bush but has not flowered....maybe next year ??