The flowering of winter jasmine

The winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) is native to the north and west of China and can also be found in Tibet and Yunnan, where it grows from around 800 m up to altitudes of 4500 m. It came to Europe from there in the middle of the 19th century.

As you can see from the picture, it grows as a shrub. When its branches touch the ground, they take root and spread. The yellow jasmine was planted in Naone because it tolerates the altitude of 1000 m well, while the white, intensely fragrant jasmine prefers the low, warm zones. The yellow jasmine is a climbing plant that grows up to 2 m, sometimes even further.

Its flowering period is striking, producing beautiful bright yellow, but not fragrant, flowers around Christmas when temperatures are very mild. In Naone, it began to flower in February. If you look at the jasmine from a slightly wider perspective, you can say:

The sunlight illuminates the plant from the cosmos, in this case the winter jasmine, hits its germination power, which then produces beautiful, colorful yellow flowers and attracts the first insects.

The bumblebee in particular loves the yellow flowers of jasmine. Heinz Grill writes about them:

“Every animal embodies a certain emotional being and even carries this in the sense of sympathy as well as antipathy in a perfect behavior. The bumblebee, for example, with its soothing buzzing, gives a feeling of good-naturedness and industriousness. Man turns to the animals and experiences the qualities that also want to come to fruition in his soul.”

(out of the book of Heinz Grill, Gemeinsschaftsbildung und Kosmos, Kapitel: Mensch und Tier, eine Gemeinschaft des sensiblen Gefühlserlebens, p. 250)