We all love Winter Jasmine - Jasminum nudiflorum - for the wild splash of colour it gives us, in the depths of winter, at a time when not a lot else is flowering.
Although this winter, many of the ones in "my" gardens started flowering as early as November, while the Fuchsia were still going!
However much we enjoy them, though, they do suffer from general untidiness.
They flower on shoots which they made the previous season, and the problems, and hence the untidiness, arise because garden owners don't dare to prune them, for fear of losing the flowers: or, they want "more" flowers, so they leave them unpruned: or, increasingly, they just don't think about pruning them for years, until they are a tangled mass: and then, because they are inevitably blocking up the side way, growing over the lawn, or choking other plants...
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