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Old 04-27-2023, 08:18 AM
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Originally Posted by Uptown Girl View Post
Asiatic Jasmine is a vine, and must be edged and also trimmed across the top regularly. I had it incorporated in landscape at a courtyard villa. Looked great, but it was a lot of maintenance. You can't walk on it either, even when trimmed across top, it will be 4+ inches deep.
We put ours in as ground cover, not as a lawn for walking on, so it gets edged once every three months and has never been trimmed across the top. It is under a large tree so that may slow its growth.