10 March 2014

Jasmin d'hiver

Last summer when I went to Paris, CHM had taken some cuttings from a winter jasmine plant that grows in his little back garden. I brought the cuttings back to Saint-Aignan and planted them in a big pot.



When winter came, all the leaves on the stems dropped, and I was afraid they all were dead. I just left the pot out on the terrace for the winter (or what passed for winter this year, which was very wet but not very cold).


Now, however, the stems are sprouting a lot of new leaves, so the plant has survived. It didn't flower over the winter, which it would have normally been expected to do, but maybe we'll get flowers next year.


The winter jasmine, or jasmin d'hiver (Jasminum nudiflorum), usually produces yellow flowers between November and February, making it one of the few plants that flower in winter in this climate.

7 comments:

  1. And when you get a large plant in full bloom...
    it brings a Summer glow to the dullest of winters....
    There is a beauty as you walk between the Marie and the Foyer Rurale in GP...
    Hanging down over a wall, it certainly caught our eyes in January!!
    I've got my eye on it for a few cuttings later in the year...
    I'll not worry now when the things "die"...
    actually, I probably will...
    having forgotten that it was written...
    please re-post just before Christmas, please, Ken!!

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  2. Tim, it's time to get the difference between mairie and Marie... One is the village hall and the other is the holy virgin. They are not pronounced the same. Is the Marie you mention a statue?

    I only say this because so many English-speakers have the same problem. One is [may-REE] and the other is [mah-REE].

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  3. I didn't know that Jasmine blooms in the winter. I wonder how far north it blooms?

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  4. Thank you for the photos. The cuttings had to settle down before they'd be able to grow flower buds, I guess. They will be blooming next winter, no doubt.

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  5. Judy, I don't know the answer.

    CHM, I thought you'd enjoy seeing...

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  6. No Ken, not a statue... the Mairie...
    that place wot where the outgoing Mayor hangs out when he's not popping pills...
    into peoples prescription bags that is!
    It's just my brain typing faster than my fingers...
    but it is nice to know the difference in pro-nunc-dim-it-is...
    or I am!!

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  7. Tim, that's what Walt said. Probably just a typo. The pronunciation is different, though. And the spelling.

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