Trachelospermum jasminoides var. pubescens 'Madison' Fred Heutte red cedar earns its keep

red cedar earns its keep in the living landscape

fifteen to twenty feet in time

golden-yellow marigold flowers across a tidy foot-and-a-half mound

The Victorians kept this as a parlour plant

For decades the identity of Scrub Titi was debated and any wild presence uncertain

Trachelospermum jasminoides var. pubescens 'Madison' Fred Heutte red cedar earns its keep'Madison' is the cold hardy Confederate jasmine, the selection that carries the beloved evergreen vine a full zone north of where the tribe usually stops. Vigorous and twining, with glossy dark leaves and the powerfully fragrant, white, star shaped flowers that make star jasmine famous, this form has proved hardy into USDA zone 7, well beyond the reach of the standard Trachelospermum jasminoides. The plant came to Woodlanders through the former Cedar