Gardenia Grif’s Select

Hardy All the Way through Zone 6!

Exceptionally fragrant! Rejoice, zone 6 and 7 gardeners!

Now you too can enjoy the beauty of Gardenia in your garden, thanks to this super cold-hardy new shrub! Grif’s Select is a full TWO ZONES hardier than others, with exceptionally fragrant, lovely blooms, interesting berries, and evergreen foliage.The sweet scent of Gardenia is legendary, and this compact, plump little 3- to 4-foot shrub has some of the most beautiful and fragrant blossoms in the world. The flowers arise in late spring and early summer, 3 inches across, pure white, and star-shaped. This shrub flowers right down to its lowest branches, giving you dozens — even HUNDREDS — of beautiful blossoms. And when you consider that even one or two Gardenia flowers is enough to perfume a room, you can imagine the effect of a fully-blooming shrub in your sunny to partly shaded garden.The flowers are followed by 6-sided berries of rich orange-red with long, elegant stems.

They stand out nicely on the shrub and make terrific dried arrangements, lasting well into winter on the shrub and for months after cutting. Perfect for the hedge, foundation planting, shrub border, or accent plantings, Grif’s Select blooms the first year in your garden and for many, many seasons to come. It forms a tidy, compact little shrub that never needs pruning, and is practically maintenance-free in acidic soil amended with humus and protected from strong winter winds. Plant it a bit higher than surrounding soil and get ready for season after season of color and fragrance. Zones 6-10.