The easy-care winter jasmine is quite robust and versatile. With an appropriate climbing aid, the winter jasmine grows up to 5 m tall. You can use this plant not only to green house walls or loosen up hedges, but also to plant in tubs.

Winter jasmine is well suited as a container plant

In the bucket, the winter jasmine usually grows to a height of about 1.5 - 2 m if it gets a climbing aid. Without this support, it usually remains at a size of about 1 m. Choose a sufficiently large bucket, this ensures good stability. In addition, your winter jasmine gets enough nutrients.

Regularly cut off your winter jasmine in the tub so that it stays in good shape and forms new shoots, because it flowers on the one-year-old wood. Winter jasmine tolerates pruning very well. If you cut off too much, the plant will recover relatively quickly.

Choosing the right location

As in the field, the winter jasmine in the tub needs a sunny or semi-shady location that is also protected from the wind. The delicate yellow flowers with snow caps are a very pretty sight, especially when you are sitting in the warmth yourself. If you can, place the tub on the patio or within sight of a window.

The wintering of potted plants

With any type of potted plant there is a risk that the roots will freeze in winter. This danger increases when the planter is relatively small. If you live in a rough area, then wrap the plant pot in an old sack or a woolen blanket in autumn to avoid the risk of freezing to death.

Winter jasmine buds can withstand frost down to -15 °C. The flowers sometimes freeze because they are a bit more sensitive. But the winter jasmine sets so many flowers that this only results in a short pause in flowering, not an end to the flowering period, which lasts until March or April.

The essentials in brief:

  • suitable as a container plant
  • possibly give climbing aid
  • Location: sheltered from the wind and sunny or semi-shaded
  • Protect root ball from frost in winter
  • prune regularly

tips

Winter jasmine is an excellent container plant. Give him a trellis.

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Vegetable garden