Jasmine needs help desperately

[RachH]

Hello
I've just joined the forum as I need some help with my Jasmine. It was an indoor plant, for several years, growing long and rather straggley. It was replanted outside recently, in the sunshine and with a trellis to grow up.
It is slowly turning white and I think it's dying. Can anyone help please? The soil has been tested and it's very alkaline.

 

[Mark56]

Did you harden it off before planting out? It's been quite chilly and a few frost forecasts for the UK this week. Has it been overwatered/what is the drainage like?

 

[RachH]

I haven't heard of hardening a plant and therein lies the problem I would say. It's been indoors and now suddenly it's outside....
It hasn't been overwatered, it has good drainage.

 

[Tetters]

Hello Rach, do you still have the label for this plant? As far as I can see it does not seem to be a hardy variety, and will probably not survive outside. There are very many different varieties of Jasmine and I think they belong to the Olive family
The term ''hardening off'' just means that a mollycoddled plant that has lived inside needs to be introduced to the big outside world - gradually. Unfortunately, some houseplants just do not put up with English ''outside''

It may be a good idea to invest in a Jasmine officinale, or some nice hardy honeysuckles or clematis for your garden. Where are you in the UK. Anywhere near me in Kent?

By the way, welcome to the forums