Buttons Gardenia – 3 Gallon Pot

If you love gardenias and their heavenly fragrance but haven’t had the space to fit one in your gardens meet ‘Buttons’, a dwarf Gardenia that forms a compact mound of dark green glossy foliage to only 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide over time. From mid spring to mid summer Buttons produces abundant, lusciously fragrant and “cute as a button’ double flowers with snow white petals that surround a yellow button at the center. Excellent in garden beds or pots, Buttons is one you’ll want to plant around patios, decks, porches and other outdoor sitting and living spaces where the flowers and fragrance can be enjoyed from up close. 

Its low and mounding form to only 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide make the Buttons Gardenia ideal for use as a specimen in smaller garden spaces or pots, planters, and other containers. In larger landscape spaces it is ideal for use in groupings or mas plantings as a border along paths and walkways or around patios. Because it prefers partial shade (avoid afternoon sun) it also serves well as a low evergreen to underplant small to larger trees such Japanese Maple trees, Fragrant Tea Olive, Grancy Greybeard, Crape Myrtles, Redbuds, Dogwoods and many others. Excellent for home foundation plantings on the east side of the home where it will receive afternoon shade. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, cottage gardens, white theme gardens, tropical-look gardens, and partially shaded woodland gardens. 

Suggested Spacing:  2 to 2.5 feet apart for solid hedge or mass plantings;  5 feet or more apart for space between plants