Hello I have a beautful Gardenia Tree I am sure it is the aimme
Gardenia tree. has anyone ever grown it and over wintered it in the
norht east of the US?

On 5/31/2012 7:27 AM, cici ramirez wrote:
Hello I have a beautful Gardenia Tree I am sure it is the aimme
Gardenia tree. has anyone ever grown it and over wintered it in the
norht east of the US?

I guess you could call my gardenia a gardenia tree as it is on a graft
stock.

http://i48.tinypic.com/2vvqh51.jpg

The gardenia is over 35 years old and I keep it inside in cold months
and outside from about May to October. I live in Northern Delaware.

When kept inside, it gets spider mites which are kept under control with
misting and wiping. Once it got scale which required a systemic to
eliminate. The gardenia is in a 16 inch pot which is about as big as I
can handle and is kept in check with pruning and occasional root pruning.

I've been able to clone numerous plants from cuttings and they grow well
and flower.

On 5/31/12 4:27 AM, cici ramirez wrote:
Hello I have a beautful Gardenia Tree I am sure it is the aimme
Gardenia tree. has anyone ever grown it and over wintered it in the
norht east of the US?

If your gardenia is tree-like, it might indeed be Gardenia jasminoides
'Aimée', which can grow 6 ft tall.

G. jasminoides is hardy to 20°F. Unless your gardenia is in a container
that can be moved indoors in the winter, it will survive the winter only
in Florida or southern Georgia in the eastern U.S. On top of that, it
needs a hot summer to bloom. With enough summer heat and a winter
without serious frost, it can even bloom on and off all year long.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

Gardenias can be damaged by cold temperatures. So move potted gardenias inside when temperatures drop below 60 to 65 degrees at night. Consider transferring garden gardenias into pots for the winter if your area experiences freezing nights in the winter. Use a garage or greenhouse to overwinter your gardenias. Do not disturb the plant or its leaves while you're moving it; gardenias do not like to be disturbed or handled. Fertilize your gardenias once a month, even in the winter. Put a layer of fertilizer around the base of the plant.

On 6/1/2012 4:02 AM, allen73 wrote:
Gardenias can be damaged by cold temperatures. So move potted gardenias
inside when temperatures drop below 60 to 65 degrees at night. Consider
transferring garden gardenias into pots for the winter if your area
experiences freezing nights in the winter. Use a garage or greenhouse to
overwinter your gardenias. Do not disturb the plant or its leaves while
you're moving it; gardenias do not like to be disturbed or handled.
Fertilize your gardenias once a month, even in the winter. Put a layer
of fertilizer around the base of the plant.




I assume different gardenia types might respond to different conditions.
In my case, mentioned above, I never move the plant indoors on a cold
summer night. I saw gardenia bushes outside in Myrtle Beach, SC where
they sometimes get snow and frost.

My gardenia winters inside the house in the living room and I only
fertilize it sparsely twice a year.

On 6/1/12 1:02 AM, allen73 wrote:
Gardenias can be damaged by cold temperatures. So move potted gardenias
inside when temperatures drop below 60 to 65 degrees at night. Consider
transferring garden gardenias into pots for the winter if your area
experiences freezing nights in the winter. Use a garage or greenhouse to
overwinter your gardenias. Do not disturb the plant or its leaves while
you're moving it; gardenias do not like to be disturbed or handled.
Fertilize your gardenias once a month, even in the winter. Put a layer
of fertilizer around the base of the plant.

My Gardenia jasminoides 'Veitchii' is in the ground, not in a container.
Only in July-September do night-time low temperatures average above
60F. Last moneth (May), the low remained above 60F on only two nights.
The plant has been in bloom for about two weeks now.

It survived the "great freeze of 2007" (13-14 January 2007) when the
temperature dropped to 32F and my statice (Limonium perezii) died. It
has survived other sub-40 temperatures. With enough summer heat, it
sometimes blooms through the winter, when average night-time lows are
50F and below.

--
David E. Ross
Climate: California Mediterranean, see
http://www.rossde.com/garden/climate.html
Gardening diary at http://www.rossde.com/garden/diary

Hello I have a beautful Gardenia Tree I am sure it is the aimme
Gardenia tree. has anyone ever grown it and over wintered it in the
norht east of the US?

probably not outside of a greenhouse
requires at least zone eight
--

09=IX

"cici ramirez" wrote in message
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Hello I have a beautful Gardenia Tree I am sure it is the aimme
Gardenia tree. has anyone ever grown it and over wintered it in the
norht east of the US?

The Central Experimental Farm (Ottawa Canada) specializes in
winter hardiness information (and is located north of all the
continental USA.)

--
Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)