Taming a Trachelospermum Jasminoides

[Jeanied]

I have one growing up an archway column in front of the shed. It is a rather unruly evergreen - I hacked it right back last autumn and it has been really sulky about flowering this summer- instead it has put on all the growth I cut out, and is now flowering at the top (not what I wanted at all!)

The books say it is highly trainable without giving any indication of how!

Has anyone got any tips on how and when to prune it and train it so it becomes a column of flowers instead of a mass of trailing stems as it is now?

[lynda66]

whenever it grows a bit you don't want it to .... cut it off .... dunno if thats the right way, but i've been doing it with a climbing rose, and it's just about starting to do what i want ... if you cut the growing tips off, it will get bushier rather than taller so you should get flowers lower down.... i just cut out any bits that are wrong...... or bend the flowering bits over and tuck them downwards through the rest of the bush, tying it in as you go if you need to

[rustylady]

Try this link Jeanie Trachelospermum / RHS Gardening Advice. And also what Lynda says. You need to keep a constant eye on it and cut out whatever is going where you don't want it to.

[Jeanied]

Thanks for the advice folks - RustyLady that link was my source of advice when I cut it hard back last year. I'm going to do it again next spring and we'll see what I get - I'd love it to be full of flower like the picture on the link!