Cinta, Thanks for replying and sharing your experience. The info you shared is exactly what I would like to know: what happen when jasmine go dormant... "It lost most of the leaves and I gave it enough water so the soil was not bone dry. Which was usually every 4-6 weeks. When I put it outside for the summer, it started to grow fresh leaves and it bloomed Spring and Summer..." Actually that is also exactly what I expect and hope to happen for my jasmine (well, maybe not as down/bad as in your zone there). So I am a bit relieved as I know what's to happen is normal and not the end. I do not expect my jasmine would give me a year round beauty and fragrance to enjoy, but maybe half year or more of joy will be fully satisfying. Also I think I would be pleasantly inspired by many plants they go some kind of dormant and come back vigorously like a re-born new life (as long as they don't go all the way to the end and never come back
). As for a fragrant houseplant, I may have one set for this winter: the Amaryllis Blossom Peacock. I'll receive the bulb (together with one A. Samba w/o fragrance) in this late Oct and I hope to force them bloom at Christmas (more likely be early next year). Similarly, these amaryllis bulbs also go kind of dormant (most likely in Fall) to re-build for re-bloom again next year... Well I think my rookie year of houseplant growing is full of excitement, surprise, crisis, sadness, failure, learning (from all you gardening gurus), experimenting, joy of tear, and mostly hope and wish for next year (this year not end though).
Shade, Thanks for the recommendation of the orchid Cactus. Your description is very interesting to me except the fragrance with chemical smell part. May consider it in the future.
