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GARDENIA is a flowering plant in the Coffee family, native to the tropical regions and subtrpical of Africa,Indonesia, Australia and Oceania. The name of GARDENIA was given by Alexander Garden, a scottish-born American Naturalist.
It is an evergreen shrubs with small trees growing to over 1o meter tall. The flowers are solitary , white, or pale yellow, with strongly scented.
In Cigudeg, I grow this plant near the porch.
Gardenia adalah tanaman berbunga dalam keluarga Kopi-kopian, asli dari daerah tropis dan subtrpical Afrika, Indonesia, Australia dan Oceania. Nama Gardenia diberikan oleh Alexander Garden, seorang Naturalis Amerika kelahiran Skotlandia.
Tanaman ini berupa semak dengan pohon-pohon kecil yang tumbuh hingga lebih dari 10 meter, Bunga-bunganya yang soliter berwarna, putih, atau kuning pucat, dengan bau yang sangat wangi.
Di Cigudeg, saya menanamnya di dekat teras rumah.
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CIGUDEG pleis bilong tu mi 
gorgeous photos…I can see the water droplets on the Gardenias and leaves!!! I wasn’t aware the Gardenia was in the coffee family…interesting! I stopped by as I would like to learn more about Indonesia…
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Thank you for dropping by and I am most flattered by your nice words.
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So pure! thanks for sharing!
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You are welcome. I am happy you like it. Thanks
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oh these photos make me homesick for png! i loved gardenias. miss them and their scent. i’m glad you posted these. –kris
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Gardenia is rarely found now at my place and very expensive if we by from nursery. BTW when did you leave png ?
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i left png in 1990 after 17 years there. i’ve been back several times to visit but the last time was 6 years ago. hoping to return in two years for a family visit and some time in the village—west sepik (sandaun).
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Beautiful photos. We have them in our garden too. I find the scent very strong, but I love the beautiful flowers.
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You are lucky one ! same to me that I like the purely white color and the scent.
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Gardenias are lovely especially near a porch where you can smell their sweet perfume as you go in and out of your home. Do you also grow coffee? I have heard that the coffee plant has a beautiful fragrant flower?
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We don’t grow coffee around the house but farmers grow them on a very large farmland on Java, Sumatra, Bali and Sulawesi Islands. Coffee has beautiful flowers which are axillary, and clusters of fragrant white flowers bloom simultaneously, then followed by oval berries of about 1.5 cm (0.6 in) and ripe in 5 to 6 month later. I have the plants growing wild on the border of the land where I grow wooden trees for paper. Next time I will make a post about it when the plants are blooming. I appreciate for discussing this plant.
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I would be pleased to learn more about them. I tried to grow two coffee plants here in Christchurch. I managed to keep them alive for almost 4 years but one year they were killed by snow. I thought I had protected them well but the snow was too severe. So I didn’t get to see any berries or flowers. To grow coffee here is very unusual.
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Oh I am sorry to hear that. As far as I know Coffee grows well up to the temperature of 18 degrees Centigrade at the high mountain area not in below zero.
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Such a pure and lovely flower, looking exceptionally pretty with the dew on those delicate petals~ 😀
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… and spreads its scent before the sun rise. Thank you Wendy. 🙂
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Ah, Gardenia and Rose are together my two favourite flowers. Now I must go to the plant nursery and buy a Gardenia shrub! I already have lots of Roses. 🙂
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Hi Shirley, it is one of my favourite flower plant too. Always remind me of my childhood. best wishes.muhammads
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Beautiful shot..:-)
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Thank you very much. 🙂
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Beautiful, fresh and pure!
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Thank you very much niki. thank you for the nice words.
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This is my absolutely favourite scent! I can smell the gardenias through your photos. Thank you for sending! 🙂 Now I am going to look to your butterflies. Uta
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Thank you very much Uta for visiting mine. thank you for your nice words.
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Gardenias are among the most beautiful flowers and I’ve tried to grow them in my home – indoors of course. But, unfortunately I have never succeeded…They last 6 months and then the dry winter air with central heating kills them. Wonderful pictures!
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Yes it is. I grew it last February 2012 in about 30cm high and now have been baring flowers several times with about 70cm height. I am most grateful that you like Gardenia as I do. 🙂
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Wonderful flower(s)! 🙂 Hi from Toulouse, France and thanx for liking my post:
http://incaunipocrit.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/mon-sablier-est-bleu-royal/
My very best for 2013, stay healthy, “cool” and good luck in all your endeavours! 🙂
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Hi Melanie, Welcome to my blog. I found your blog is wonderful ! same to you stay healthy and gain more prosperity ! 🙂
best wishes.muhammads
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Lovely photos, I really enjoyed this post.
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I am grateful that you like it and thank you for visiting too. I found your blog is very awesome !
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Thank you 🙂
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absolute beauty 🙂
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Thank you, Arjun. 🙂
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Just wonderful photos and nature. Thank you for visiting my blog.
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Thank you for nice words and I like your blog is fascinating !
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Lovely Flower. And definitely good photographs. looks close to a wild rose.!
Thanks for sharing
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Thank you very much for nice words, Payal. best wishes 🙂
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Beautiful photography. 🙂
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Hello my friend, Paulette. Thank you for your nice words and congratulation for your deserved achievement in this beginning of 2013. Keep healthy and happy. Best regards-muhammads 🙂
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I love the lofty fragrance of the flowers as walk past them in my garden…
Thank you for this delightful and discriptive post of a most sweet scented flower!
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Nice to know that you have also Gardenias in your garden. Thank you for visiting. Best wishes 🙂
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Such a beautiful flower – both to look at and enjoy the fragrance
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Definitely yes, Bob. I live the gardenia too. Best wishes.
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Reblogged this on Jericho777's Blog.
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I have gardenias growing. One big parent bush and several smaller bushes from cuttings. I am surprised and pleased when the Gardenia blooms, even though there is not enough sun for the leaves to be thick and happy. Mine has a leggy appearance, but is well established with good roots. I planted it from a cutting 15 years ago, which I brought from another Gardenia that I grew from a cutting from — etc. I have had a bit of the same Gardenia growing for about 30 years. It is wonderful how flowers and their scents evoke memories from childhood, our own and other’s.
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Sounds interesting !, you have the 15 year – old plants? That’s true, Their flowers and scents evoke memories from our childhood too. I still remember when my older sisters often took me trespassing our Dutch neighbor’s garden for just to smell the scents.
One day we were caught by the owner, we were very scared and shaking the whole body, but finally we ffound beyond expectations, they were very kind and gave us some bud to take home.
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🙂
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When my sister come to my house,she smells the scent and says; I smelt Gardenias in the air, blah blah blah… Do you still remember when I took you to a garden near our mother’s house? … blah blah blah!… and I said Yes, I still remember it all. 🙂
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Most beautiful flower with a truly heavenly scent. I once was given a bowl filled with those blossoms which I took happily and proudly back to my hotel room. Oh what a mistake that was – big big mistake. I was sick all night. So, lesson learnt, despite it’s beauty not a flower to be kept in a closed room 🙂
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Ouch, I am sorry to hear it 😀 …. I don’t keep strong scent flowers in the closed room, especially in large quantity. I grow some strong scent flowers at home, namely Gardenia, frangipanies, orchids, jasmines, quisquaalis, roses, and several other flowering trees and just love to feel the natural air freshener with different fragrance in every different flowering seasons. 🙂
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I am glad that I found this. I like gardenia (actually I used to familiar with kaca piring. It was difficult to find the name in english or Bahasa, because I used to think that kaca piring is my local language/sundanesse). My mother likes flowers also, I have an idea to buy her gardenia shrub. Thanks for sharing. 🙂
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Ahh,… Assalamu Alaykum, Mbak Nur. I am Also a Sundanesse. I am so glad you finally found my blog. 🙂
Wilujeng sumping sareng hatur nuhun tina kasumpingan mbak. Making your mother happy means you are opening a door to heaven!
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