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 ...

Mock Orange, Philadelphus, is an old-fashioned, fragrant, spring-blooming shrub. It’s large — it can grow to nine feet — easy-to-grow and produces thousands of blooms that smell like orange blossoms, ...

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There are many smells, good and bad, that trigger my memory. Sweet Mock Orange when in bloom triggers a memory of getting out of school. It has been told to me that the sense of smell is the closest ...

A. Mock orange (Philadelphus species) bloom on old wood (the growth it put on this past season), and as such, should not be pruned until immediately after it blooms next spring. At that time, you can ...

WHAT: Belle Etoile mock orange is beloved for its sensational, spicy fragrance, which flows through the garden like an unseen wave in midsummer. Its abundant flowers are single, creamy white with ...

Dear Roger: I'm afraid you made a big mistake in last week's column. The plant you showed as a mock orange was not mock orange. I grow mock orange, which you can see in the enclosed photo. You can ...

One of the sad things about moving is you can’t always take your favorite plants with you. Especially if they’re growing in your neighbor’s yard. One of my favorite shrubs is the old-fashioned ...

Mock orange, a 3-foot to 10-foot high shrub, is currently in full bloom on the open hills of western Montana. Hundreds of 1- to 2-inch creamy white, four-petaled flowers, redolent of orange blossoms, ...

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 ...

Many gardeners' fall to-do lists get packed with tasks like harvesting, pruning, mulching, and winterizing perennials. There's often enough pruning in particular that it can be a relief that some ...