Tabernaemontana Species, Crepe Jasmine, East India Rosebay, Nero's Crown, Pinwheel Flower

I have moved this plant 3 times, trying to find a place where it is happy. I have a very green thumb, but this plant is mystifying. No ma...Read Moretter where I move it or what I do, most of the buds have brown edges and fall over. The blooms that make it are usually brown around the edges, and have no fragrance whatsoever. The foliage is nice and green and glossy, but the flowers are awful. The rest of my garden looks awesome, except this plant. I have tried more water, less water, more fertilizer, less fertilizer, more sun, more shade, all to no avail. The only good thing it did was bounce back after the terrible freeze we had last winter. Now I have it in full sun and am neglecting it, though it gets watered when I run the irrigation, and from the rainy season. The leaves as usual are green and glossy, but there are no blooms. It's better than brown-edged booms!

This gorgeous plant grows in my sister-in-law's lush garden in Kingston, Jamaica. She planted it by the front entrance so that its gloss...Read Morey leaves and fragrant flowers can be enjoyed by all who visit.

I have 2 plants of this variety. Neither are fragrant. Flowers last quite a while and really stand out against the green foliage. Bloom c...Read Moreontinually. It's fall and they are in full bloom.

I have recently transplanted them to the ground and they are taking nicely.

Winter has not passed so I can't tell you if the will survive the frost. San Antonio, Usually does not have harsh winters but with Mother Nature being unpredictable lately.

I will update in spring with a status update on this zone 9-10 plant in a 8B region. Mine is non-fragrant but every post and weblisting I have read says that it has a fragrance.

This plant was one of the few surviving shrubs in the yard of a house I bought in St. Petersburg, Florida, zone 9b. The house had been a...Read More rental for years, and the yard was really neglected, so I really enjoyed this plant in my front yard right from the beginning. Some years it would stay evergreen if we had a mild winter, and other winters it would frost to the ground. Then I would wait until mid-March, or after all danger of frost was past, and chop out all the old dead branches, and by mid Summer the plant would be at least six feet tall and as wide. It was in part shade, and bloomed sporatically, but especially at night the fragrance would wax through the living room windows--just delightful.

I suspect this particular plant was planted in the mid 1950's, when the house was built. We were North of its range, but I suppose it had acclimitized itself over the years, and I always mulched the roots heavily each year against surprise late freezes.