I have a Cestrum elegans planted in a fairly moist area that gets full morning sun, and about two hours of afternoon sun. During the hottest part of the afternoon, it's in shade.
The plant is doing rather well. It has doubled in size over the summer, and is just now coming into bloom. My problem is with how spindly it is. The plant consists of a dozen or more long long stems. They rise about one foot, then weep back to trail on the ground.
I put in a stake and gathered the stems together, so now it stands about three feet tall. The ends still weep and are back to touching the ground. It doesn't appear to be trying to vine around the stake, and doesn't appear unhappy.
Is it normal for Rosy Pink Jasmine to be so incredibly floppy? The descriptions and photos I find online seem much more like a bushy shrub than a mass of spindly reeds bent into U-shapes. Should I remove the stake and let it live in the dirt? If so, I'll need to trim it a LOT, because I don't have room in that bed for a five-foot wide starfish.
Cestrum elegans (Rosy Pink Jasmine)
The plant appears to be sort of saggy in one of the pics in this link.
It could be you have to stake it until the plant gets older. I'm not familiar with this plant so maybe someone else has the answer.
Lin
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/2741/
I have a couple of cestrums that do the same thing. Have been extremely tempted to prune them back wondering if that will promote a bushier plant???
The dogs manage to break a long branch every now and then and I have found the broken branches root quite well. I just make a clean cut where it broke off and push it into the ground :o)
~ Cat