Gardenia jasminoides 'Chuck Hayes' prophouse-fall-2027 The genus name itself is

The genus name itself is far older

A hybrid strawberry tree

the arching stems hang with luminous

which is only half the trick: as the tree matures the leaves gradually give up their lobes and settle into simple

which still comes back through a Zone 8 winter

Gardenia jasminoides 'Chuck Hayes' prophouse-fall-2027 The genus name itself isThe gardenia needs no introduction in the South; the scent alone has been stopping people in driveways for generations. What 'Chuck Hayes' adds to that old story is nerve in the cold. The line traces back to the late 1970s and a Virginia Beach nurseryman named Charlie Hayes, who noticed a single flowered gardenia that had come through a brutal freeze unbothered. He crossed that survivor with a double flowered plant and handed the seedlings to Dan