Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy' Vines acid sand where richer soil

acid sand where richer soil and standing water would spell trouble

This hybrid is sterile and sets no seed

with bronze-red new growth and curious upright stipules capping each shoot

Someone later wrote a whole book about the saga and called it A Virgin for Eighty Years

Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy' Vines acid sand where richer soil'Kleim's Hardy' is a small, mounding evergreen gardenia with lustrous black green leaves and single, star shaped ivory flowers, and one of the most cold tolerant gardenias in the trade. Where most gardenias pile petal on petal, this one opens flat and simple, five or six broad ivory petals flaring around a boss of creamy yellow stamens, and carries the same heavy, sweet perfume in a lighter, cleaner frame. The plant earned a following after reports