In message , Charlie
Pridham writes
I was given a jasminum polyanthum as a present last year. It has been
outdoors all summer, but now I don't know what to do with it, as I have
no conservatory. Does anyone have any idea whether there is a good
chance it will survive in the ground here in Sussex, on a Western wall,
perhaps with a bubblewrap around it during the worst of the winter?
Or is too hot indoors better?

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Klara, Gatwick basin

I would try against a west wall, if you bubble wrap, put some canes in
to keep it off the plant and allow air circulation, Also some loose
mulch around the base of the plant. Mine is not 100% happy outside as
it is frosty here and I do not have a good wall for it but it has never
been actually killed and reshoots after cold winters from the base (you
of course lose all the flowers when that happens)

Thanks, Charlie - I think that must be the best option, even with the
hard winter everyone is predicting. It must be a better option than in
the central heating indoors (though what with the price of fuel, it
isn't going to be all that warm in here either! ((
My kingdom for a conservatory...


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Klara, Gatwick basin