Gardenia jasminoides "Yellow" David Geiger and the smooth

and the smooth

Bees and butterflies work the flowers all summer

blooms heavily

and rewards almost any reasonable site with bloom and easy good health

Gardenia jasminoides "Yellow" David Geiger and the smoothThe gardenia needs little introduction to a Southern gardener: glossy evergreen leaves and thick, waxen, intensely fragrant flowers that perfume a whole summer evening. This selection, grown simply as the Yellow gardenia, adds a twist, for the blooms open creamy white and deepen with age to a rich butter yellow, so a single shrub can carry both colors at once against the dark foliage. Gardenia jasminoides belongs to the coffee and madder family,