DEAR GARDEN COACH: I enjoyed your article on plant adaptations; it got me thinking about something I recently discovered when looking for a plant called mock orange. There were two — Pittosporum ...

The beautiful and fragrant shrub called Lewis' mockorange (Philadelphus lewisii) grows from British Columbia to northern California and from the Pacific Coast inland to Montana. Although native, it is ...

Origin: North America Wild mock orange (Philadelphus lewisii ‘ Blizzard’) is an excellent shrub for central Ohio. It is open-branched with medium green oval leaves 1 to 2 inches long. New branches ...

Miscellaneous Trees, Shrubs and Plants: Philadelphus gordonianus (Philadelphus lewisii), commonly called Gordon's mock orange or Lewis mock orange.

Some plants are indispensable — roses, daffodils and clematis, for example — to which I would add philadelphus, those gorgeous sweet-scented beauties that many call mock orange or syringa. Every ...

They say that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery. That is certainly true of three shrubs that offer the wonderful scent of orange flowers and thus have earned the common name mock orange. The ...