{"id":4577,"date":"2025-02-03T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-03T08:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/?p=4577"},"modified":"2025-02-03T14:43:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-03T09:13:40","slug":"gardenia-the-king-of-fragrance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/gardenia-the-king-of-fragrance\/","title":{"rendered":"Gardenia: The King of Fragrance!"},"content":{"rendered":"<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tyuzNCZsEe8?si=h1sM2g72TVh4hEEg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Scientific name <em>Gardenia jasminoides<\/em> is reminiscent of Jasmine, another flower with excellent fragrance. Yet another name is Cape Jasmine. Note that it is different from Crape Jasmine, a flower resembling Jasmine, but devoid of much fragrance. Gardenia is a shrub which can grow from one foot to up to 10 feet, especially when grown on ground soil. This one is growing in an 18 inch garden pot. Flowers were scanty so far. But now it has several flower buds and one flower which has bloomed well. Flower buds are green to begin with and become white just prior to blooming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"575\" src=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gardenia-The-King-of-Fragrance-1024x575.jpg\" alt=\"Gardenia: The King of Fragrance!\" class=\"wp-image-4578\" srcset=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gardenia-The-King-of-Fragrance-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gardenia-The-King-of-Fragrance-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gardenia-The-King-of-Fragrance-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Gardenia-The-King-of-Fragrance.jpg 1202w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now most of the buds have bloomed and the old flower has turned yellowish. You can get a glimpse of a <a href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/variegated-and-non-variegated-crape-jasmine\/\">Crape Jasmine<\/a> in a nearby garden pot. Crape Jasmine flowers are much smaller than Gardenia or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gardenia_jasminoides\">Cape Jasmine<\/a> flowers. This plant would have grown much taller, had it not been trimmed regularly. Regular trimming is needed due to our limited garden space. Though the leaves of Gardenia have a glossy appearance, flowers have a matte texture. It has been mentioned that Gardenia blooms in summer and autumn and are among the most strongly fragrant of all flowers. Truly, a king of fragrance!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientific name Gardenia jasminoides is reminiscent of Jasmine, another flower with excellent fragrance. Yet another name is Cape Jasmine. Note that it is different from Crape Jasmine, a flower resembling Jasmine, but devoid of much fragrance. Gardenia is a shrub which can grow from one foot to up to 10 feet, especially when grown on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-vegetables-at-home"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gardenia: The King of Fragrance! - Johnson&#039;s Horticulture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gardenia flowers have an excellent fragrance, which gives it the name Gandharaja in this region, meaning &#039;The King of Fragrance&#039;!\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/johnsonfrancis.org\/horticulture\/gardenia-the-king-of-fragrance\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gardenia: The King of Fragrance! 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