Gardenia Belmont | Live Plants | Jasminoides Cape Jasmine | Fragrant Blooming Ornamental Shrub

Gardenia Belmont plants. Best known for its lush foliage, rounded habit and wonderfully fragrant flowers, common gardenia is a superb cold-tender evergreen shrub native to East Asia. One of the best gardenia cultivars for indoor culture, 'Belmont' (also known as 'Hadley') has exceptionally large leaves and rose-like semi-double ivory-colored flowers that fade to yellow. Flowers appear from late spring to summer and occasionally into fall. The dense glossy dark foliage provides year-round interest. Acidic, evenly moist soils with good drainage are crucial for plant health and successful blooming. Common gardenia grows best in full to partial sun and needs good air circulation to discourage foliar diseases. Whether used as a specimen or in a mixed shrub border, this is a beautiful and rewarding landscape ornamental. In colder temperate zones gardenias may be container grown and overwintered in sunny indoor locations. More alluring than your best bottled perfume, these flowers emit an intoxicating heady aroma. A rare, vintage, estate variety, ‘Belmont’ produces huge, rose-like, creamy blooms in full to partial sun. They like regular water and regular feeding, something high in nitrogen, these guys are heavy feeders, but so worth it.