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Shrub
Gardenia
Gardenia jasminoides
Special care: intensely fragrant flowers but needs acidic soil, morning sun/afternoon shade and regular iron feeding in alkaline DFW soils.
Recommended uses
- Foundation beds
- Fragrance gardens
- Plant type
- Flowering shrub
- Evergreen / deciduous
- Evergreen
- Sun
- Part shade
- Shade tolerance
- Moderate
- Water needs
- Medium
- Bloom season
- Spring, Summer
- Bloom color
- White
- Mature height
- 3–5 ft
- Mature width
- 3–4 ft
- Maintenance
- Medium
- Texas heat tolerance
- Medium
- Drought tolerance
- Low