Kerria ~ Primrose Jasmine

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I have two of these bushes, I brought them from our old house of 3-4 years ago. My uncles had planted one and we had made new plants from it. I remember them from my Mum's and Grandma's garden.

It is not a kerria rose which I hadn't heard of.

www.paghat.com/kerria.html

I don't remember mine having quite as distinct primrose flowers as this bush pictured:

www.magnoliagardensnursery.com/productdescrip/Jasmine_Primrose.html

You can get them for $2 tube here:

www.cradocnursery.com.au/plants/Jasminum-mesnyi.shtml

How to train them:

www.countrynews.com.au/story.asp?TakeNo=200506275248574

It is a climber resistant to drought.

www.gardenbloom.com.au/statictables/challenging_cond.asp

www.floridata.com/ref/J/jasm_mes.cfm

[braided-rug]

I found a picture today in an old Our House magazine of a double one, and they called it a Kerria Japonica.

fly.hiwaay.net/~oliver/kerria.html

Mine is flowering now, I haven't had a lot of flowers in the time that I have grown them. We found a baby plant when digging up some other plants so I am happy about that.

My Grandfather used to drive the front of his ute under the bush that arched over the front fence. I used to go crawling under Mum's it was grown next to a apricot small flowering rose. I don't know which bush was growing on what. There was a fence under there and quite an adventure to go to the other side, which was used as a sheep yard at different times of the year.

I saw one growing yesterday in the town I go shopping in, was so happy to show dh how large they grow.