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  Add color and fragrance to your garden with flowering jasmine. Allow this plant to roam free as a vine in the garden or pinch back new growth and train it into a bush. Not all species emit the floral aroma famously associated with this delicate blossom. Educate yourself and choose your jasmine species carefully before you buy your plants.
  
  

Porches and Patios

• Common white jasmine (Jasminum officinale), also known as poet's jasmine, is best placed close to the porches and patios of your home. The Clemson University Extension Office says lanky jasmine vines grow up to 15 feet long and crawl up posts and railings to surround these outdoor environments.
  
  Jasmine thrives in the partial shade of these spaces. Inhale the classic fragrance of jasmine flowers that bloom from summer into the fall as you laze outside on balmy evenings sipping iced beverages. During the day, sit under your sun umbrella and enjoy the flurry of colorful hummingbirds common white jasmine attracts as they come to feed.
  
  

Ground Cover

• Plant Asiatic jasmine as a ground cover in place of grass that does not receive a significant amount of foot traffic. The University of Florida Research and Education Center notes, "Asiatic jasmine is virtually maintenance-free...it is vine-like and forms a mat of growth 12 inches or more in height." They go on to say that by replacing turf with Asiatic jasmine, ground cover use of "fertilizers, pesticides, and especially irrigation would be greatly reduced." Be careful, though, as this jasmine species can become aggressive and invade grassy areas if not edged regularly.
  
  

Shrubbery Border

• Crepe Jasmine (Tabernaemontana divaricata), also known as pinwheel flower, has white flowers that are particularly fragrant after sunset. Edward F. Gilman, professor at the University of Florida in Gainesville in the Environmental Horticulture Department says, "Crepe jasmine is a good choice for use in a shrubbery border... its rounded form makes it a good foundation plant."
  
  This jasmine species works well in these recommended planting locations because it grows up to 10 feet tall and performs better in partial shade than in full sun. Any outside wall of your house, except a south-facing one, makes the most of this place to plant jasmine.