Ohio Grown Night Blooming Jasmine Plant (Cestrum Nocturnum) - Fragrant 4" Potted Plant for Gardens, Patios & Indoor Decor

I never bought plants thru the internet, so I didn't know what to expect. What I've got was a thin cutting with a few leaves, and I am still trying to improve it. It is still alive and hopefully it will grow stronger.I recall carefree evenings where the night air was laced with the perfume of night blooming jasmines growing up. So when I found these on Amazon, I had to have one. The plant comes well packaged to make the trip, but make sure you do not order it when you still have the chance of a winter freeze. It just happens that my first plant arrived on an unexpected late cold blast past valentines day. I unwrapped the plant and kept it indoors, but the cold zap had got to it in transit. The leaves looked frozen and translucent. In a couple of days all the leaves fell down and the plant did not look like it would make it. Thanks to Amazon and the Ohio nursery, I got a quick replacement and the new plant is doing well and growing. I am in zone 8b and will need to keep the plant in a pot so I can bring it in during the winter. This is a tropical plant and cannot take a freeze. Its a fast grower and I cannot wait for the blooms this summer!I think the plant is super small it's about 2inches*; but it ships well that way. i got two and one was broken upon arrival because it was long stemmed. but i enjoyed seeing how they wrapped it for travel. one of the two was dried out but revived when i watered it. they used these messy styrofoam peanuts. it looks NOTHING like the photo. I've got them in a partial sun spot watered daily. They arent growing yet but i can update it when they get bigger.UPDATE 1/30/13: *it was closer to 1 or 1 and a half inches tall, the more for the second one. They are growing great with just plain tap water, bit shaded. Manure and potting soil mix. Grew half an inch to an inch since receiving. (Seems to grow fast.) trying to upload product pics now.UPDATE 2/6/13: plant has healed with a thick 'scar' where it bent. It is possible for it to stand without support where the break occurred, so this qualifies as a hardy plant! It has also grown another inch (a little more). Mine is a nice dark, healthy green now, and obviously thriving. So I encourage people interested in purchasing this to give it a good fertilizer, lots of dappled sun upon arrival, and daily watering. It will grow quickly beyond the tiny stage. I will be transferring it to a (much) larger pot within 1-2 months of having received it, so it can spread out. But it's doing well in the original pot shaded by its friends for now. Hopefully will remember to post a note whenever it begins to blossom. Good luck!I'll rate this purchase a five. The Cestrum Nocturnum arrived within a week after orderding from Hirts. It arrived July 3rd in a white box. The Jasmine was in a 4" container inside the box. I took the measuring tape and measured the stem from the dirt to the top. It was 15 and a half inches. There were about twenty, healthy, green leaves on the stem. I had an old 8' Terracotta pot and filled it up halfway with Miracle-Grow Moisture Control potting mix, placed the Jasmine right smack in the middle and filled the rest up with the potting mix. Here near the Southern border of Arizona the Jasmine gets watered twice daily in the hot summer. (It's kept mostly in the shade with a few hours of sunshine.) Two weeks after placing it in the Terracotta, I added Vigoro Rose Food. It is now July 20, seventeen days later and the Cestrum Nocturnum is 20 and a half inches tall, with over twenty new stems growing out of the main stem and over 50 new leaves.I remember we had this plant growing in our home in Southern California. It looks like a plain Green bushy plant most of the time but there are 3 to 4 months out of the year, usually July, August, September, and October when the little cream colored, flowers grow out of it, and starting at about 6 to 8 pm when the sun goes down, that's when the sweet smell of the flowers would wow the neighbors especially after a good rain, but during the day (in broad daylight).... they rarely radiate that sweet scent.Update: October 4, 2013The Main stem is now 26" tall but seemed to pause growing any taller for now, but two, big, new stems grew from it. Those two new stems are about 23" and today the flowers are starting to show. The rest of the other stems that grew out from the main stem stayed short but very leafy.I ordered a few of these, maid of Orleans and Madagascar jasmine from Hirts I want to say march of 2012. I've had them a year my night blooming jasmine has been through plant hell, put it in the ground in a low spot, dumb it flooded them, then the white flies infested them, pulled the babies up pruned them and kept them in pots. Except the three in the rose garden darn things need pruning all the time, I like to keep them bushy and about four feet high. The swamp babies moved into the rose garden and are growing like weeds almost as big and bushy as the others. This is the first year of flowers, not really smelling yet but I do attribute that to the stress I put them through the first year, and have high hopes. The other jasmines I ordered from Hirts, the Maid of Orleans are in pots with supports and are over five feet and climbing smell dreamy. The Madagascar jasmine also in a pot with supports just bloomed this year!If you understand you have a baby plant arriving in the mail and it has gone from a nice home into the postal system packaged best as possible but subject to a little rough handling and needs some TLC right away they will not disappoint. But if you think you are getting this big blooming plant you are wrong, shop at your local nursery or read the pot size closer. Even plants from "direct gardening" come in as babies or bare root. Think of the shipping costs, you would be paying for the dirt it's growing in.As for Hirts, I've bought plants and seeds from them and never been disappointed. As a matter for fact I bought my Moonflower seeds from them, I never have to buy Moonflowers again, I harvested over a few hundered seeds from the plants last spring planted them this year and all have started.