Gardenia sp. 'Variegata' Native so choosing a pollinizer that

so choosing a pollinizer that flowers at the right time is the whole trick

chinotto is a fruit for the kitchen and the glass

Cut spent fronds back in late winter before the new ones unfurl

shaped like the slender bill of a crane

this is one of the finest evergreen climbers for scent and early bloom

Gardenia sp. 'Variegata' Native so choosing a pollinizer thatThis striking, rather upright gardenia is a Woodlanders introduction that has since become more widely available, grown less for bloom than for the boldly marked leaves. Each glossy leaf is splashed and margined in strong yellow, so the whole shrub reads as a soft fountain of gold and green, a rare thing among broadleaf evergreens and a bright note for a shaded corner. The plant came to us many years ago from Brookside Gardens in Maryland, who had