Mock orange

The perfume of mock orange blossoms is a sweet enough memory to last all year in the garden. Mock orange plants grow lanky and have fairly nondescript foliage except for 'Aurea', the golden mock orange. Newer compact varieties are your best bet for a plant you can tuck away and forget about until it comes into bloom in early summer. The larger varieties make useful screen plants. Pest-free and drought tolerant, mock orange does best in a fertile, well-drained soil.

Light:

Sun,Part Sun

Zones:

4-7

Plant Type:

Shrub

Plant Height:

3-15 feet tall

Plant Width:

To 6 feet wide

Landscape Uses:

Containers,Beds & Borders,Privacy

Special Features:

Flowers,Fragrant,Drought Tolerant,Deer Resistant,Easy to Grow

Top Varieties

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Galahad mock orange

(Philadelphus 'Galahad') produces small, glossy leaves and medium-sized fragrant white flowers on a plant that grows 8 feet tall and wide. Zones 4-7
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Miniature Snowflake mock orange

(Philadelphus 'Miniature Snowflake') is a dwarf from that grows only 3 feet tall. It bears lots of double white, fragrant flowers in spring. Zones 5-8
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Minnesota Snowflake mock orange

(Philadelphus 'Minnesota Snowflake') bears very large, double flowers that are fragrant, on an upright, well-branching plant growing to 8 feet tall. Very cold hardy. Zones 3-7
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Virginal mock orange

(Philadelphus virginalis) produces large, semidouble white blooms are sweetly fragrant and resemble white roses when in bud. It grows 8 feet tall and 6 feet wide. Zones 5-8
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Garden Plans

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Foundation Garden
Living Legacy Garden Plan
Patio Garden
Easy-Care Summer-Blooming Shade Garden Plan

Propagation

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Stem Cuttings