Climbing jasmine - isn’t dead but has simply stopped growing?

[GardenGeorgie]

We bought a jasmine and put it in a corner of the garden where it turned out, nothing flourishes (it’s under the shade of a massive tree in the neighbour’s garden).

So, last year we moved it to a temporary spot on the opposite side of our garden. Wow, it absolutely flourished, glossy green leaves, and grew quickly. But! It was in the completely wrong place and couldn’t stay there.

So, at the start of February we got a gardener to transfer it to its new location a couple of metres away. I did notice that he seemed to leave quite a few roots behind in the old location but assumed he knew what he was doing.

Since then, it’s just sort of… stopped growing. It hasn’t withered and died, some leaves look mottled, but it hasn’t continued to grow either.

Is there any way to rescue it?

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You have dug it up twice already?

I'd say it is probably just sulking and I'd cut it right back and give it a feed.

Poor plant is in shock after so many moves. It is still quite cold for active growing so give it a chance. Water thoroughly - I mean a full watering can full once a week to encourage the roots to go down not a little sprinkle on the top. Maybe add some liquid fertilizer like miracle grow unless the gardener put slow release fertilizer in when he moved it.

Have you fed it? I’d maybe try that. Maybe stuff like this

https://amzn.to/3xPi4GU

I'd leave the poor thing alone and let it recover from being moved twice. It's probably in shock.

Being under the tree will have deprived it of light and shade. When you moved it to the second location it will have shot out roots and then they were disturbed.

Just make sure it is in a damp place with plenty of light, tie it in so it doesn't get wind-buffeted and it should recover.

It wouldn’t grow over winter anyway. It’s now developing a good root system in its new spot. I wouldn’t feed it till it’s showing top growth. Cutting back may be worth it so the battered root system doesn’t have so much top growth to support.

Brilliant, thank you all. Totally new to all this so just learning as we go along!

Mine took ages to grow op. It's been in about 3 years now and has only just made it to the top of the 6ft trellis and still looks a bit sparse lol.

Leave the poor thing alone!! It is going to need a good couple of years to recover from all that moving about.

The reason there is no top growth at the moment is because it is using all its energy to stay alive and grow new roots. There is no point in growing at the top until the foundations are there to support it.

Just keep it well watered all summer, and give it a small quantity of granular fertiliser in mid June spread on the soil around it, which will last the rest of the season.