Tropicals & Tender Perennials: need help with Thunberg's Gardenia, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Dane, I checked back on my photos, here's one of the same plant taken in early August this year, flower has 6 petals.The flower today has 7 petals. There's a few more buds getting ready to open up. Will be interesting to see how they look.

The seed pod on mine is vastly different to the ones shown when I googled Gardenia thunbergia. I thought I'd taken photos of my seed pod but if I did then I can't find them now.

Mine is still in a pot, haven't had time to plant it out yet. So it's sitting where it gets the automatic irrigation twice a day. It only gets a bit of early morning sun but about 10:30 am it gets full sun, up to about 1:00 pm. Then it's in shade the rest of the day.

It seems to need more water than our native Gardenias here. We have 15 species and subspecies of Gardenia locally, not including Kailarsenia suffruticosa which until only recently was Gardenia suffruticosa.