Can I plant my jasmine outdoors

I have a jasmine plant which I bought to keep in the bathroom but it doesn't seem to be doing much (although there are new tendrils on it). A firend told me that she planted hers out into the garden and it has come on great. We are up here in Scotland so I am wondering if it would survive.

Can anyone help me out with this.

Salgor

I'm not sure what your weather is like. I bought two jasmines and put one in a very large pot in a sheltered corner that faces northeast. The other went into a bed on the west side of my house. They were both the same size at planting. The one in the west flowerbed died from the cold north-northwest winter winds. The one in the sheltered location has stayed evergreen and come back beautifully and blooms it's heart out--it's 3 years old now. If you get cold winds, you might want to consider giving it a location where it's sheltered. My surviving jasmine is still in the very large clay pot growing on a trellis and doing really well. I keep it pruned to fit the trellis and fertilize lightly a few times during it's active growing season.

It would help to know what your winter low temperatures are--do you get snow? frost?, and also we'll need to know which jasmine it is. There are a number of different things in genus jasminum, some are hardier and would probably make it outdoors for you, but others most likely wouldn't. And then you add in all the other plants that are not in genus Jasminum but have the common name jasmine, again some of them would probably make it and some wouldn't. If you're not sure what yours is, maybe you could post a picture and someone else will recognize it. But if you're sure yours is the same as your friend's plant and hers has done fine outside, then assuming you live near her or have similar weather I don't see why it wouldn't do fine for you as well (but if your friend's plant hasn't been through winter yet in her garden, you might want to hold off, lots of plants will do great in spring/summer/fall but then the cold in winter is too much for them)

At the very least, it would probably enjoy being outdoors in a pot during the warmer months of the year. I don't know what the conditions are in your bathroom, but most jasmines like a decent amount of light, and a lot of times bathrooms might be too dark for them.

It's going to depend on which jasmine you have and what the winter weather is like in your area. Star Jasmine can take some cold but I don't think it would survive extremely cold temp's: If it is the Trachelospermum: http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/55230/ it can take some pretty cold temperatures and survive fine.

I also found this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/gardening/plants/plant_finder/plant_pages/4246.shtml

i have confederate jasmine which stays in a pot under a tree year round. it does great

It is a wonderful plant. My neighbors have it planted all along a wood fence in their backyard. The fragrance is heavenly! Eventually the wood fence will rot away because of the moisture held in by the vines.

I made a mistake years ago of planting a small confederate jasmine next to the house where there was a t.v. antenna. The jasmine grew up that pole, crossed over to the house and attached itself to the roof and grew all over the roof on that side of the house! My husband had a heck of a time getting it down ... the vines had attached to the shingles on the roof! He finally took his chain saw to cut the base of it and then dug the roots out. They were very fat, thick vines! But here in Florida a lot of plants get really huge and grow wild!

I now grow jasmine in a container with a trellis so it doesn't rampantly take over!

I didn't mention above so for the record, mine is a star jasmine.