Jasmine Indoors: Growing Fragrant Vines for Year-Round Blooms

Jasmine is prized for its intensely fragrant, star-shaped flowers that bloom in clusters of white or yellow throughout the year. Though a vine outdoors, it adapts beautifully to indoor containers where its trailing habit can be managed.

Planting

Grow in a pot or hanging basket with any good-quality potting or all-purpose soil.

Care

• Spring and summer: provide full sunlight.
• Winter: bright light, but direct sun not required.
• Keep soil moist and well-drained; avoid overwatering.
• Summer: maintain moist soil, allowing top to dry between waterings. Reduce watering in fall. Winter and spring: keep slightly dry.
• Prune after spring blooming to shape the plant.

Pests & Diseases

Root rot and mealybugs are the most common problems.

Recommended Varieties

• Winter Jasmine (Jasminum polyanthum) produces pink and white blossoms from February onward.
• Poet's or French Perfume Jasmine (Jasminum officinale) has double white flowers on double stems.

Tips & Trivia

• In Hawaii, jasmine and ginger blossoms are woven into leis for Lei Day on May 1st.
• Jasmine vines naturally twine over supports like arches or trellises.