Mama Kat Thursday: Throwback Thursday!

The Mama Kat prompt today is revisit a blog post from June last year and talk about that:

This time last year, I won a "Night Blooming Jasmine" shrub for a door-prize at a Gardening talk I attended at the city Community Center. 

Here's where I planted it. It was a lovely little topiary shrub that blooms white flowers at night that feeds moths and other night feeders.
But come winter and hard freezes killed it.

I didn't give up though.
In my experience, shrubs and trees generally sprout new growth from the same root. 

So, come spring, I hoped my Night Blooming Jasmine would sprout a new stem.
It did.

Here it is today:

It's about 3 feet tall now and preparing to bloom.
 I wasn't sure what to do with it exactly. The previous plant had been trained into topiary form, but I didn't know what it's natural growth pattern was like. Topiary training can be challenging if it's a really branchy sort of shrub.

Turns out, it just put up one sturdy stem and seems to lend itself naturally to being trained into topiary shape.
I just recently striped the leaves off the base stem up to just below where I want the branches to group at the top.

It might be hardier come winter perhaps, since it's well-established now and not a new planting. But, just in case, I'll be sure to cover it ahead of any hard frosts.

We had 3 hard freezes last winter---enough to burn all the leaves off one of my blueberry bushes, so it didn't fruit this year---and that doesn't usually happen!