Gardenias Glore!!!

This isn't even half of the buds
blooming yet....

One of my favorite flowers is " gardenias"!  There is nothing else like their smell.....heavenly!!!  Gene and George started me a cutting off of one of their gardenia bushes six years ago and as soon as the house was built, I planted it in the back yard.  As soon as it got big enough to bloom it has given me enough flowers to keep the house smelling wonderful in the summer and even in the Fall, sometimes.  BUT!!!!  it has NEVER bloomed like it has this summer!!!!  I know there must be at least 600 blooms and buds on it.  There are so many flowers on it that it is weighing down all the branches to the ground.  I started dead heading the bush, yesterday and got two five gallon buckets full of spent flowers.  I got tired of cutting so will continue today until I have all the branches standing up again.  When I talked to Gene the other day, she said their bushes are doing the same thing.  I believe it's because we had such a mild winter last year, everything is blooming like BIG TIME CRAZY this Spring and Summer!!!!!