Plant: Steady as She Goes® Gardenia
Gardenia · Gardenia jasminoides 'Steady as She Goes'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
A Proven Winners gardenia with an upright habit reaching 3 to 5 feet tall and 4 to 7 feet wide, blooming continuously from spring through fall with fragrant white flowers. The evergreen foliage is dark green and glossy and holds through the winter. It takes part sun to sun, wants consistent water and good drainage, and an acid soil below pH 6.0. Space plants 4 to 7 feet apart and use it as a border shrub, a container thriller or a fragrant focal point near a patio. Prune only in spring, and only to remove damaged or dead branches.
- Part Shade
- Grows to 5 ft tall and 7 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer, fall
- Hardy in USDA zones 7a-10b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A Proven Winners gardenia with an upright habit reaching 3 to 5 feet tall and 4 to 7 feet wide, blooming continuously from spring through fall with fragrant white flowers. The evergreen foliage is dark green and glossy and holds through the winter. It takes part sun to sun, wants consistent water and good drainage, and an acid soil below pH 6.0. Space plants 4 to 7 feet apart and use it as a border shrub, a container thriller or a fragrant focal point near a patio. Prune only in spring, and only to remove damaged or dead branches.
- Flowers
- Fragrant white flowers produced continuously from spring through fall.
- Foliage
- Opposite or whorled leaves are lanceolate to ovate, dark emerald green, glossy and leathery with prominent pinnate veining.
- Light
- Morning Sun, Dappled/Filtered Light
- Pruning
- Prune after the main flush of bloom finishes; heavy pruning later in the season removes the buds for next year.
