Specialty Gardening: Grape jasmine anything but, 1 by Kalpavriksha

Kalpavriksha wrote:
That time of year again. The "Grape Jasmine" has a few fruits on it. I don't see the connection. Mine are and always have been (4 past 3 yrs) a "Pea Jasmine" of small fruits.
I like it ok; the stems are small and twine by themselves. It's a good jasmine for chain link fences.
There's just two almost negative things about it. First, like many jasmines it wants to climb to the top of whatever it's growing on (like it's reaching for the top of a tree to break into sunlight); 2nd is that it seems to send out straight runners along the ground. Those have to be redirected back to the fence (better than the only choices being trimming it all to the ground or re-twining the higher vines back down the fence to keep it full.)