Gardenia Jasminoides "Belmont" 11Liter Standard H1 meter

🌿 Gardenia ‘Belmont’

Botanical Name: Gardenia jasminoides ‘Belmont’
Common Names: Belmont Gardenia, Cape Jasmine

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📌 Product Description

Gardenia ‘Belmont’ is a compact, evergreen flowering shrub known for its large, creamy-white, highly fragrant blooms and glossy dark green foliage. This improved garden variety is valued for its reliable flowering, strong fragrance, and neat growth habit, making it ideal for both gardens and containers.

Blooming primarily from late spring through summer, ‘Belmont’ produces abundant double flowers that fill the surrounding area with a rich, sweet scent. Its tidy, rounded form makes it perfect for patio planting, low hedges, entrance features, and courtyard gardens in South African climates.

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📏 Size When Fully Grown

• Height: 1 – 1.2 m
• Spread: 1 – 1.2 m
• Growth Habit: Compact, rounded evergreen shrub
• Growth Rate: Moderate

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🌱 Best Growing Conditions

• Light: Full sun to partial shade (morning sun preferred in hot regions)
• Soil: Well-drained, acidic, organically rich soil
• Water:
  • Keep soil evenly moist
  • Avoid waterlogging or prolonged dryness
• Feeding: Use acid-loving plant fertiliser during spring and summer
• Maintenance:
  • Deadhead spent flowers to encourage further blooming
  • Light pruning after flowering maintains shape
  • Apply mulch to retain moisture and improve soil health

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🌦️ Planting & Growing Season (South Africa)

• Best Planting Time: Spring to early summer
• Flowering Season: Late spring through summer (may rebloom in warm regions)
• Growing Season: Spring and summer
• Climate Suitability: Subtropical, coastal, and mild temperate regions
• Frost Tolerance: Sensitive to heavy frost; protect in colder areas

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🌼 Additional Benefits

• Intensely fragrant, large double blooms
• Compact and suitable for containers
• Glossy evergreen foliage year-round
• Ideal for entrance planting and patios
• Adds elegance and sensory appeal to the garden

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🌿 Ideal Uses

✔ Fragrant patio or courtyard plant
✔ Low hedge or border
✔ Container specimen
✔ Entrance feature planting
✔ Classic and formal garden designs