Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy' Vines Gail Barton of Flowerplace Plant

Gail Barton of Flowerplace Plant Farm in Mississippi did the work of making him known

Someone later wrote a whole book about the saga and called it A Virgin for Eighty Years

with bronze-red new growth and curious upright stipules capping each shoot

became the one most gardeners use

Gardenia jasminoides 'Kleim's Hardy' Vines Gail Barton of Flowerplace Plant'Kleim's Hardy' is a small, mounding evergreen gardenia with lustrous black green leaves and single, star shaped ivory flowers, and one of the most cold tolerant gardenias in the trade. Where most gardenias pile petal on petal, this one opens flat and simple, five or six broad ivory petals flaring around a boss of creamy yellow stamens, and carries the same heavy, sweet perfume in a lighter, cleaner frame. The plant earned a following after reports