Jasminum nudiflorum Bob McCartney The flowers showy and intricate

The flowers showy and intricate but ephemeral

The species behind this oddity is no ordinary shrub

belonging instead to the Cistaceae

Magnolia sprengeri 'Diva' is the aristocrat of the pink magnolias

and because bloom comes on new growth

Jasminum nudiflorum Bob McCartney The flowers showy and intricateJasminum nudiflorum, the winter jasmine, is the great cold weather bloomer of the genus, a deciduous scrambling shrub from western China that opens bright yellow, six petaled flowers on bare green stems in the depth of winter, often from January into March, long before the leaves return. The name says as much: nudiflorum, the naked flowering jasmine, blooming on stripped, leafless wands. Unlike the perfumed white jasmines, winter jasmine is scentless,