New Jasmine Turning yellow at base

I'm not sure if I'm posting this in the right section. If not hopefully a mod can move it.

We bought a couple of climbers last month and I planted them in a new bed I prepared specifically for flowers. The bed is North East facing and gets a lot of sun in the morning. Before we started working on the garden it was completely overrun by weed and obviously untouched for years. It's also very heavy clay soil that becoes sticky sludge in winter and dy and hard as rock in the sun. We did try to improve the soil with lots of compost.

I planted a climbing rose, an evergreen honeysuckle, a jasmine and a passion flower.

The climbing rose and honeysuckle growing really well. The passion flower is starting to send out new shoots and leaves. The jasmine flowered recently, but at it's base the leaves have turned yellow. And after a week flowering a lot of the flowers already look spent.

What exactly am I doing wrong and how can I help my poor jasmine.

 

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I'm sorry. Poster the wrong pictures.

Herr is a picture of the jasmine

 

Do you still have the plant label for the jasmine?

My suspicion is that you have planted the indoor jasmine, jasminum polyanthum, which flowers in the spring, rather than the outdoor, jasminum officinale. The leaves look glossy, and a little too dark for the J. officinale, which would not normally be in flower until June.

If you are living in a very sheltered area (your profile says Leyton?) you might get away with it, but I would be tempted to lift the plant, bring it indoors and enjoy the flowers, and search for the officinale to plant outside....

 

Yikes. That's upsetting. I bought the Jasmine at Columbia market and asked the seller how to plant it. He never mentioned it was an indoor plant. I will look up the two types and see which one it us. Maybe a closer picture would help. It did not gave a label.

 

Well, J polyanthum grows well as a conservatory plant, and I'm sure some people can get away with growing it outside in very sheltered areas.... I grew one in an unheated "conservatory" in High Wycombe many years ago - it would sometimes do that brown-at-the-base thing to me if it was stressed, eg had dried out. If yours has been grown in an warmer environment, it might be having a little sulk because someone has turned the heat off, even if it picks up later?


If it helps, this is what my J officinale looks like at the moment - just coming into leaf.
Not very exciting yet, but later in the year it will have mid-green leaves, and beautiful scented flowers.... (The leafy thing at the bottom of the picture is a clematis that shares the support)

 

I do belie that you are correct and that it is a Jasmine polyanthum.
It has been very hot in London these last week and the soil has gotten pretty bone dry. I have tried to keep up with the watering. But perhaps not enough. So maybe it is having a sulk.
Not sure now whether to keep it outside. It is predicted to get very hot.

 

Hot won't be the problem.

Overwintering it outdoors will be though.
I have tried....and failed

 

Can I leave it out and take it back in in winter or should I replace it with the officinale?

 

I don't think it would take too kindly at being dug up in autumn, and I am guessing you would like the scent in the garden through the summer? Your plant will probably stop flowering in a month or so, even if it is happy....
Personally, I would bring it in now, and enjoy the flowers (you can put the pot out in a semi-shady place during the summer), and get the officinale, which is probably nearer to what you really want in that spot....

 

Great. Thanks for the advice. That's what I will do. Bit annoyed the guy who sold it to me never mentioned this.