This is my Gardenia Bush now....

This bush is HUGE. Its taller than most people. I dont know if you can tell just how big it is. I was reading up on it, and all the sites say that growing a gardenia is difficult and requires special soil, fertization and temperatures. HA!!!! The Canadian HATES this bush and has done his best to kill it...he has cut it to the ground but it comes back with a vengence. We do nothing special and yet it gows to a massive size. 2 separate ice Storms have broken it in half completely and still it thrives. I just LOVE when it blooms. it smells so wonderful, you can smell it from quite a ways down the street. The reason Hubby hate it is the smell. he says it smells like funerals. One thing I hate is it attracts bugs like crazy, in particular a small thing called a whitefly. There are millions of those things when it blooms. I read they can kill the host plant but not ours. Ours is Superunkillable plant! I will post pictures of it in full bloom, mine doesnt usually bloom until June.

Just a note.... this bush was here when we bought the house and according to our old neighbor, Miss Georgia, her sister planted it in the 1950s when the house was new. So its older than me, (well of course since I am only 24) I think its a tough old lady.

Later