Gardenia sp. (from China) prophouse Once widespread across southern China

Once widespread across southern China

Winter Daphne is not an easy plant to produce

from a distance

and lovely backlit

relished by turkey

Gardenia sp. (from China) prophouse Once widespread across southern ChinaEvery collection has its unnamed treasures, and this gardenia is one of ours: a plant grown from seed gathered on Emei Shan, the great sacred mountain of Sichuan in southwestern China. The species has not been pinned down, but the plant is unmistakably a gardenia, upright in habit and clothed in long, narrow, glossy dark green leaves quite unlike the broad foliage of the common Cape jasmine. In the warm season the shrub opens single white flowers,