Collection: Jasminum

Jasmine covers several quite different plants, and the garden jasmines here are all hardy across Britain.

Winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) flowers bright yellow on bare green stems from November to March. It grows as a loose, scrambling shrub rather than a climber, and is often planted to tumble down a bank. It's happy in shade, even on a north wall, and copes with exposed gardens. The flowers have no scent.

Summer jasmine (Jasminum officinale) is the scented one: a vigorous twining climber to 8 metres, with white flowers from June to September that are good for bees. It wants sun and a sheltered wall.

Don't confuse either with the pink jasmine sold as a houseplant in winter (Jasminum polyanthum), which is killed by frost. Pink summer jasmine (Jasminum x stephanense) is different again: a hardy garden climber with scented pale pink flowers in summer, which loses its leaves in winter. Plant from March to May or September to November. Grown peat-free in Yorkshire.