Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy' Vines The stems carry scattered thorns

The stems carry scattered thorns

with bronze-red new growth and curious upright stipules capping each shoot

spine-edged leaves and

Cycads carried this same architecture through the age of the dinosaurs

became the one most gardeners use

Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy' Vines The stems carry scattered thorns'Kleim's Hardy' is a small, mounding evergreen gardenia with lustrous black green leaves and single, star shaped ivory flowers, and one of the most cold tolerant gardenias in the trade. Where most gardenias pile petal on petal, this one opens flat and simple, five or six broad ivory petals flaring around a boss of creamy yellow stamens, and carries the same heavy, sweet perfume in a lighter, cleaner frame. The plant earned a following after reports