Our community garden near Tel Aviv has a plan for a row of locally occurring flowering shrubs, and I've been collecting propagation mater...Read Moreial for this purpose. I found Jasminum fruticans in the wild, near Malkishu'a on Mount Gilboa, on March 10, 2015. This plant is not rare, but it is rather patchily distributed in Israel's Mediterranean shrubland (Batha), and it is found in widely separate spots, mostly in the North. It has not yet been adopted by gardeners who prefer more fragrant and showy exotic species, and our local Botanical Garden at Tel Aviv University has had some difficulty establishing it here in the sandy coastal region.
I am trying to root the few cuttings I took, and I shall update this page accordingly.
Leaves are lost over winter but the stems remain green. It has taken a long time to make a splash, perhaps helped now by global warming....Read More Jim Jones
Our community garden near Tel Aviv has a plan for a row of locally occurring flowering shrubs, and I've been collecting propagation mater...Read More
Leaves are lost over winter but the stems remain green. It has taken a long time to make a splash, perhaps helped now by global warming....Read More