Gardenia flowers grow on evergreen shrubs ... that some plants will need to be uprooted and thrown away. As you can see, gardenias require a lot of care and attention, but we think the payoff ...

Taking a sensible and moderate approach to gardenia watering will enable you to keep on the right side of these beautiful ...

The first step is to understand why your particular gardenia’s leaves are yellowing, so that you can target the problem at the source and return your plant to good health. See also: 5 mistakes ...

Above: A gardenia bud unfurls ... Related, a lack of buds forming can be caused by not enough sunlight—see what I mean about gardenias being a bit finicky? Above: Photograph by Mimi Giboin.

However, it may be more important to you to get the gardenia under control than to see the flowers (only the flower buds on the parts you cut off are lost.) In that case, prune now. Or ...

Gardenia buds are notorious for falling off ... Don’t transplant until you see roots coming out of the bottom of the pot’s drainage hole and only into a pot one size larger.

which compared the gardenia's DNA to that of Coffea canephora and a few other plants. "This is a case where we see the same underlying evolutionary mechanism generating these tandem duplicates to ...