Two legendary white scents. One demands a gardener's devotion, one mostly needs a trellis.
Shot to one scale: bloom beside bloom, from our own library.
The verdicts, line by line
Every line below is a field of the open table, not an opinion.
In the vase
Only gardenia carries published vase trials (2 days); for jasmine flower no postharvest record exists, and we do not guess.
In the garden
On upkeep the table sides with jasmine flower: rated low maintenance against high.
The full card
A line is marked only where one flower clearly leads. Equal or too-close values are left plain.
| Field | Gardenia | Jasmine flower |
|---|---|---|
| Vase life, days | 2 | no trials published |
| Fragrance | Very fragrant | Intensely fragrant, a single vine can scent a whole room or garden |
| Light | Full sun to part shade, best with light shade in hot climates | Full sun to part shade |
| Water | Medium, kept evenly moist | Medium; moist, well-drained soil, tolerates occasional dryness |
| Hardiness zones | 7 to 11 | 7 to 10 |
| Bloom months | 4 months | 4 months |
| Cats (ASPCA) | Toxic | Listed non-toxic |
| Out of water | Poor | not recorded |
We keep one table of 85 flowers, with 25 documented facts each, drawn from university and extension sources. Every ranking is a published formula worth 100 points; tap any score and it unfolds into the lines that made it. A flower that does not fit the question is not scored lower: it is excluded, and the reason is shown. When the table changes, every score and stamp updates itself. The full method ↗
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Everything the table holds on each of them, in plain prose.
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