For gardeners with limited space, a hearty shrub or small tree that produces fragrant blossoms nearly year-round might be a good choice. Mock orange fills that bill. The common name mock orange is ...

Q: My mother taught me everything there is to know about plants and trees and how to take care of them properly. She is a walking encyclopedia of the outdoors. While visiting her yesterday I saw a ...

It makes my heart sing when I can bring you a plant you may not know – one that should do well for you and that will reward you for years into the future. Such it is with mock orange (Philadelphus x ...

It is no surprise to any of my readers that I love trees. I not only value them just for being a tree, but I admire their entire structure - their roots, their trunk and all their branches. You might ...

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 ...

Each year in mid- to late October, the OSU Extension office fields questions about hedge apples, an oddity of nature which seem to fall from the sky in autumn. These large and heavy fruits with an odd ...