Trachelospermum jasminoides

Trachelospermum jasminoides, often called Italian or Tuscan jasmine in Dutch, is an evergreen climbing plant with a high, twisting, climbing habit. The leaves are dark green, oval to lanceolate, glossy and sometimes turn a beautiful deep red in winter. This star jasmine flowers from June to September with a lot of strongly fragrant, star-shaped white flowers in hanging racemes. Trachelospermum jasminoides requires a sheltered position in full sun with a southern orientation and good winter protection. The plant requires a well-drained humus-rich soil, is fairly hardy, fairly sea wind tolerant, tolerates air pollution, is well disease resistant and produces striking legumes up to 20 cm long in autumn.