Specialty Gardening: My gardenia jasminoides "Kleim's Hardy" made it!!!, 1 by zville123

zville123 wrote:
Joe,

My gardenia is in a flower bed at the back of my house which faces west (we have a hill going upwards on the north side of the yard so the wind doesn't blow through our back yard as much as the next house up the hill, if that makes sense). We do have some trees which block some of the sunlight, but the gardenia does get afternoon sun and moisture. The foliage looks healthy...it doesn't look burned at all. Here's a picture...I took it towards dusk so I had to use the flash...the light leaves are new foliage. It's in a bed with other plants so it gets watered when they do. And I've been using the suggestion you made about using coffee around the gardenia :~)

Denise