If you're in S.E. PA, you should be asking the folks at Longwood Gardens and Wintertur over the Del. border; they've probably tried everything at one point or another. With borderline hardiness, the key is location, location, location, aka protection, like Jeff Al said, and even then there's no guarantee. If you've got a sunny, southfacing wall, or similar sunny spot that's protected from winter winds, with well-drained soil so that it's not freezing and thawing on soggy roots in early spring, that's the place for it. I haven't heard j. stephanense to be reliably hardy below zone 7, but the nursery above sure seems confident about their clone, there are positive reports of z5 hardiness on one or two "other" forums as well. Fragrance varies on this one, the specimen at the local botanical garden never smelled much to my nose. I tried the hardy jasmine once, but somebody swiped my plant, pot and all before winter was over! (Hey, it's Brooklyn, fugghedabouddit!) I would definitely try a gelsemium, they seem very tough and mostly evergreen up here. Or you could grow 'em in pots and lug 'em in and out all year like I do! Jim

Thank you! What is confusing me about the badger ID is that to me the face markings look more like European badger than an American badger. I've read that Euro badgers do not live in the US. Do you have any thoughts on that? Do young badgers have different markings?

Looks like a dog, not a fox.

coyotes for sure. look at these foxes dark legs and white tip on tail. https://youtu.be/6PHa3gfVGtY