Jujube and Jasmine

Jujube is a remarkably tough tree. It has small yellowish-orange flowers in spring. Very fragrant, indeed! The leaves are silver-grey-blue, and look nice on moonlit nights. These deciduous trees are easy to propagate by digging up and transplanting nearby root suckers in the wintertime.

I suspect you might need two different varieties for pollination, as mine have never yet fruited--in twenty years. This does not bother me, however, as it means I don't have to worry about fruit fly, but just grow them for their beautiful foliage and fragrance. They also have thorns, which means they are a good abiding place for small birds--out of reach of cats.

Jujube and jasmine should be planted as near each other as possible. Although both have exquisite individual perfumes, when the two perfumes mingle it results in a heavenly perfection--like you might expect to inhale on the breeze of some fantastic and exotic Arabian Night.

Jasmine aren't super drought-tolerant, but grow some near the house if you have some water to spare--somewhere where their roots can be protected by the cooling shade and litter of other trees and shrubs. Let them climb through the trees, and layer themselves upon the ground. After blooming, they can then die back in the summer heat, and go sort of dormant--in a survival mode; just barely alive--and return to healthy and green vigour again, in the cooler and wetter months. Letting them layer themselves, with abandon, seems to let them find and suck up a bit more water.