Jasminum sambac, the Sambac Jasmine, also called Arabian Jasmine, is one of the best scented houseplants for indoor fragrance if you live in cold climates: ideal for conservatories and greenhouses, can also be grown near a sunny window as long as you prune it frequently, because this shrub is a very vigorous plant and can grow up to 3 metres tall; however it is absolutely stunning if you can grow it outdoors (USDA 9 and up). Unlike the common name suggests, Jasminum sambac is not native to Arabia (that as many of us know, it is almost totally covered by desert), but it is and it was cultivated in several gardens in Arabia, where it was imported from the real area of origin, that is tropical Southern and South-Eastern Asia. It is widely cultivated not only in Asia, but in many tropical and subtropical countries as garden plant, or as conservatory and greenhouse plant in temperate and cold climate countries. This plant is frost tender and can be cultivated outdoors only from USDA zone 9 and up, while in most of the UK and other temperate and cold climate zones, from USDA 8 and below, needs to be cultivated indoors, but can be brought outside e.g. on a patio in summer, or even spring and autumn if the minimum temperature is 10 degrees Celsius. The best soil for this plant is acidic and the best exposure is full sun, even if can adapt to neutral or slightly alkaline soil, and partial shade. Jasminum sambac is evergreen and has ovate leaves, bright green, but the reason that this plant is so widely cultivated around the world is not the foliage, but its beautiful and very fragrant flowers.
There are several varieties of Jasminum sambac, with different sizes and shapes of the flower: in this video I show you the nominal species, with single flowers about 2-2.5 cm across, however there are varieties with double or even triple flowers, bigger in size, such as the beautiful "Grand Duke of Tuscany". The scent is gorgeous, one of my favourite fragrances among all my plants, very citrusy with sweet notes; the intensity is very powerful in the evening, but even in the morning can be clearly detected at a metre far from the plant (I have only two flowers in bloom today, and mine is a pretty small plant, but obviously the more the flowers, the stronger the scent around the plant will be). The Sambac Jasmine can bloom throughout the year, so this is one of the best reasons to cultivate this species in your house, if you have enough space, because its fragrance can create a magical atmosphere at home. The scent is so widely appreciated that not only it had been cultivated so widely, but its flowers are used for the extraction of essential oils to be used as ingredients in perfumes, as well as to flavour tea, making the famous jasmine tea.
It is not a very easy plant to find in the UK; I bought a small plant from Hayloft ( hayloft.co.uk ) two years ago but I bought this bigger one featured and blooming in this video from an Italian specialist in Jasmines and Pelargoniums, Vivai Malvarosa ( www.malvarosa.it/en/categoria-prodotto/jasminum-en/ ) .
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