can I transplant a confederate Jasman bush now and it survive the winter in Tennessee?

Answer 1

CONFEDERATE JASMINE
Confederate jasmine or star jasmine (Trachelospermum jasminoides) is highly prized for its heavily scented clusters of phlox-like flowers, which bloom on twining stems in spring and summer. It is hardy in Central and Coastal South Carolina, but tender in the Piedmont.

Mature Height/Spread: When supported, this twining vine reaches up to 20 feet. Without support and with some tip-pinching, it is a spreading shrub or groundcover, 1½ to 2 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide. The new leaves are glossy light green and the mature leaves are a lustrous dark green, to 3 inches long. The 1-inch white flowers appear in small clusters on short side branches and they are attractive to bees.

Growth Rate: This is a moderate to fast growing plant.

Landscape Use: Outdoors, Confederate jasmine can frame porches, accent trellises or, screen fences and walls, or be used as a groundcover. Indoors, the vine will spill over the edges of hanging containers, or it can be trained on a small trellis.

Cultivation: Confederate jasmine prefers sun to partial shade. A moist but well-drained soil to which leaf mold has been added is best. Yellowish leaves indicate the need for fertilizer, which should be applied in spring. Tie the stems to a fairly heavy support. The vine won’t climb masonry. Pinch the tips to stimulate lateral growth and prune after flowering if necessary to restrain growth. If the vine is grown as a groundcover, trim the upward-twining stems. Additional plants can be propagated from stem cuttings.

Indoors, Confederate jasmine grows best in bright indirect or curtain-filtered sunlight except in winter, when they need at least four hours of direct sunlight a day. Night temperatures of 50 to 55 ° F and day temperatures of 68 to 72 ° F are ideal.

Cultivars: ‘Madison’ has superior hardiness and is recommended for the Upstate.

Problems: Confederate jasmine is relatively problem- free. Rabbits like to graze on this plant.

As the confederate jasmine is tender in the Piedmont, I suspect it would not survive a Tennessee winter.

Answer 2

If it is a plant that looses it's leaves in the winter time. Then this would be my suggestion. Cut the plant down by 2/3's it's size in the fall, when the sap is going to the roots. Dig it up and replant it where you want. Then since you have a harsh winter, I'd make sure the roots are replanted well below the grade line and protected by a good layer of soil and I'd also get some clear plastic and make a "greenhouse" for it and keep it on there until the spring. This should help protect it from frost. Make sure if it snows, that the plastic is kept cleared off. In the spring, remove the plastic from around the plant. If it is an ever green.....it might be best to leave well enough alone and try to root a new one in the spring off fresh growth and then plant it where you want it to be. Good luck. I've had good and bad results with moving plants. Usually I just plant new plants in the fall, but my winters are not near as severe and there's plenty of rain more then there is snow and frost.

Answer 3

CONFEDERATE JASMINE is considered a tropical here in TN. (not winter hardy)
If you already have it planted in the ground and there is no way for you to keep it in a heated garage or building thru the winter then you might just mulch it well for the winter and hope we dont get hit with a really cold winter.
I have a mandavilla vine (also a tropical vine and not hardy in TN) that I keep in a flower pot and I carry it and the trellis inside to my storage room each winter then put it back out after the last frost of the year. You might consider doing that.
Good luck

Answer 4

I had no idea what you were talking about until I read the first answer!! The winters in TN aren't that harsh. We'll have a few days of exteme cold, but normally, it stays in the 40 and 50's for highs and the lows average in the 30's to low 40 's. That's average....it can be higher or lower, though.

Answer 5

Great answers!! Don't you love all the brilliant people? I will only add 2 things: when you transplant, scarify the roots and water with root stimulator. Fertilome makes a product I have used quite successfully. and second == all Jasmin (jessamin) are poisonous entire. Roots, leaves, flowers, and nectar are poisonous.