Jasminum officinale var. grandiflorum 25/10 Restock and the muscled bark carries

and the muscled bark carries the winter scene once the leaves have fallen

In the wild the American smoketree turns up in widely scattered pockets

and one male will service several females

sent from Virginia in the late 1600s by the missionary-naturalist John Banister to Bishop Compton's London garden

Jasminum officinale var. grandiflorum 25/10 Restock and the muscled bark carriesJasminum officinale var. grandiflorum, the Spanish or Royal jasmine, is the large flowered, intensely fragrant jasmine of perfume and tradition, a semi evergreen twining vine that opens clusters of pure white, star shaped flowers whose scent is among the most prized in the plant world. Larger flowered and more tender than the common poet's jasmine, this is the plant behind jasmine absolute, the costly essence at the heart of classic perfumery. The