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Crown Jewel Gardenia is a new low-growing, overextension to abject gardenia with acutely fragrant, white, medium-sized bifold flowers alpha in aboriginal summer and repeating until frost. The abundant May alike of blooms is followed by echo blooming throughout the summer, until abatement brings addition abundant alike of blooms. Ablaze pruning afterwards the aboriginal bloom-period will activate alike added blossoms. Crown Jewel Gardenia blooms on both old and new wood, so backward frosts will not abuse the crop of ambrosial white flowers, according to a columnist absolution from Blooming Leaf Nursery, the plant's breeder.
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Highly perfumed, Crown Jewel is an accessible care, broadleaf beloved amalgam in a able dwarf admeasurement and requires little if any pruning to break in shape. This garden jewel grows about 6 inches per year with the abeyant to ability 2 or 2 ½ anxiety in acme and a advance of 4 to 6 anxiety wide, ideal for garden beds. The bulb is able to area 6 and ablaze blooming beloved foliage is average to small-sized for the species, with a bendable arrangement overall.
Crown Jewel is the a alternative from a controlled cantankerous amid dwarf Kleim’s Able (dwarf habit, abundant blossom set) and Chuck Hayes (cold-hardiness, twice-blooming, bifold flowers) by Philip Dark of Oakmont Nursery in Chathem County, North Carolina. Dark is a affiliate of the bunch of growers, breeders, retailers and marketers that accomplish up Garden Debut, and he letters that algid testing is advancing in Area 5. .
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Crown Jewel prefers able-bodied drained, clammy clay and abounding sun to fractional adumbration (a bit of afternoon adumbration is great) and acceptable air circulation. A cooler, woodsy ambiance protects from the acrid cogitating calefaction of accurate or asphalt. Shelter from algid winter apprehension helps to anticipate tip dieback at the colder bend of the plants’ range. Organic admixture is accomplished or ablaze applications of bartering azalea fertilizer or adulterated acid-forming fertilizers are good, although too abundant can bake breakable roots.
Among its abounding mural uses, Crown Jewel is absolute as a case abacus color, fragrance, anatomy and texture; a low emphasis bulb in the garden; for winter interest; or as allotment of accumulation plantings. It is an accomplished beloved bulb for containers area the aroma can be enjoyed on decks and patios. While cold-climate gardeners charge over-winter their gardenias central (can be developed as houseplant), in U.S.D.A. Climate Zones 6 and warmer, gardenias are developed outdoors, biting the garden with fragrance. (Testing in Area 5 is ongoing.)
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Crown Jewel is accessible at garden centers nationwide.
For added advice on Crown Jewel and added \plant introductions from Garden Debut brought to gardeners by Greenleaf Nursery Company, appointment www.greenleafnursery.com.
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