As the winter chill sets across parts of the UK, gardeners hoping to add a burst of foliage to their home decor may benefit from bringing their jasmine indoors.
Not only does the hardy plant offer a showy display throughout winter, but it can fill entire rooms with its beautiful scent too.
There is one task you must complete if you want your home filled with jasmine flowers, however, according to a gardening enthusiast.
Your jasmine will bloom indoors throughout the colder season if the tips of its branches are trimmed, as this encourages abundant flowering.
Jasmine will grow profusely when trimmed
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“That amazing scent, when it’s in your home, it fills every room,” said Andy on his YouTube Channel Houseplant Hacks.
He went on: “If you have a White star jasmine and you would like to enjoy an abundant display of flowers inside your home over winter then this is the video for you.”
It’s important to get the timing right, however, as leaving the task too late may interfere with the plant’s growth.
“Right now we are coming up to the end of October and it’s around this time that you need to start preparing your jasmine,” he explained.
“Trimming it back will stimulate more branches to grow, and the more branches you have, the more forks it will put out and the more flower spikes it will put out and the more flowers you will have.”
Exposing the plant to colder temperatures in autumn is one of the best times to increase the flower yield next spring.
“I deliberately leave it outside at this time of the year so the colder night-time temperature will trigger into producing flower spikes,” said Andy.
“If you don’t have any cooler rooms in your house the best thing you can do is keep it as far away from a heat source as possible, in a bright location with bright indirect sunlight.”
Jasmine will grow profusely when trimmed
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A similar task can be completed to help squeeze out one final bloom from your dahlias this winter, according to Monty Don.
Removing the heads of spent flowers may enable gardeners to squeeze out a last bloom from their dahlias this month, the horticulturalist shared earlier this month.
He added: “Keep deadheading throughout October, particularly the equatorial plants like dahlias.
“This will extend their flowering season and squeeze the last bloom from them.”
