Southern Living Plant Collection Diamond Spire Gardenia
Best fragrant blooms for enhancing elegant garden spaces.
This reblooming gardenia offers a compact, upright form perfect for smaller spaces and containers. Enjoy its intensely fragrant white blooms against glossy green foliage throughout the warmer months. It's a low-maintenance, deer-resistant, and drought-tolerant choice for adding timeless beauty and scent to your landscape.
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Who it's for
- Homeowners desiring a powerfully scented, beautiful flowering shrub for their landscape.
- Gardeners seeking a compact, vertical evergreen shrub for small gardens or containers.
- Landscapers wanting year-round greenery and structure in their garden designs.
Who should skip it
- Novice gardeners or those preferring low-maintenance plants should consider alternatives.
- Northern gardeners living in USDA zones below 7 will need significant winter protection.
- Gardeners unwilling to regularly inspect plants for pests and diseases.
Performance breakdown
Fragrance Intensity
Single daisy-like blooms deliver a potent, classic gardenia scent.
Growth Habit
Columnar structure provides a clean, vertical silhouette for tight spaces.
Maintenance Ease
Drought and disease tolerance minimize the need for constant intervention.
Bloom Longevity
Reliable reblooming cycle keeps the garden fragrant from spring through summer.
Landscape Versatility
Ideal for container gardening or structured, upright hedge planting.
Pollinator Appeal
Fragrant white flowers effectively draw birds and butterflies to the yard.
Key Specs
Scientific Name
Gardenia hybrid 'Leefive' PPIP
Hardiness Zone
7, 8, 9, 10
Sun Exposure
Full Sun to Part Shade
Foliage Type
Evergreen
Features
Aromatic, Attracts Birds / Butterflies, Disease Tolerant, Drought Tolerant, Flowering, Heat Tolerant, Reblooming
Bloom Color
White
Uses
Accent, Container, Mass Planting
Water Needs
Moderate
Bloom Season
Spring, Summer, Fall
Mature Height
3-4 feet
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