Double Mint Gardenia
Gardenia jasminoides ‘Double Mint’ · a dwarf double-flowered gardenia
A compact, dense gardenia with fragrant double white flowers that repeat through the season, ideal for pots, small beds and the front of a border. It's hardier than the older gardenias. Give it morning sun and afternoon shade in moist, acid, well-drained soil.
- Mature size
- 3 × 3 ft
- 0.9 × 0.9 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 7a–9b
- USDA
- Sun
- Part sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Jun–Aug
Double Mint Gardenia at its mature size
A mature Double Mint Gardenia grows 2.5 to 3 feet tall and just as wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Drawn as Gardenia, sized as Double Mint Gardenia.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Clemson Extension, The Tree Center.
Growing Double Mint Gardenia
- Grows well in
- The Southeast and California.
- Growth rate
- Medium
- Good for
- Small space, foundation planting, and shade garden
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China, Japan, and Taiwan
Spacing
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Double Mint Gardenia, that’s about 3 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Double Mint Gardenia in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other gardenias
Double Mint GardeniaJubilation GardeniaGardeniaAll drawn to the same scale.