I contacted Dr. Rick Grazzini, the breeder of this new Mock Orange! He said it's just in the wholesale stage and to keep an eye out for it soon. He said it has the same requirements as Snowbelle, which I tried in my filtered/bright shade garden and it's covered in blossoms! So excited for this new one, thank you Jim!
Around Spokane WA I have seen whole fields of the native Mock Orange... a delicious scent and sight in the spring. This cultivar promises to be a real winner in a combined herbaceous and shrub sunny border.
I remember our family having a couple of these (although maybe a different cultivar) growing up in Wisconsin in the 1960s. They were shaped into an archway to the backmost portion of our yard. They were very fragrant.
Definitely looking for this since you showed it last year. I am sticking to white flowering plants in my front border and I think it would be a beautiful addition. Hopefully Southern Living will make it available
I have larger landscape spaces to fill and am looking forward to the Minnesota Snowflake mock orange that I purchased this spring to grow-out and begin flowering.
Oh this is beautiful! It will be on the list of plants I will be searching for. Being in 9b I try to plant in the fall so our summers won't kill things. Hope to get my hands on one by then 😊 Thanks for the introduction.
I looked up the patent on this one and it's actually a complex hybrid and not a selection of the sraight species Philadelphus lewisii. Its seed parent is a complex hybrid between P. coronarius, P. microphyllus and P. pubescens and its pollen parent is P. lewisii.
I live in zone 4 and I was thinking of planting several Mock Orange with Irises in a planting bed facing south. How do you think the Mock Orange would do in this location? Thank you
Jim, I have a huuuge, 55+ year old Mock Orange that was on the property when my family moved in back in '68. I missed pruning it several years in a row &, last fall, did what I've always done when this happens--gave it a hard cutback. I just noticed that while other, smaller Mock Oranges in the yard are blooming, the one I cutback hard is not. Does that mean Mock Oranges only bloom on old wood or is the plant still in recovery from last fall's pruning? Thank you. 😊
They are new to the market so hopefully they will be more plentiful soon. There’s a link to plants by mail in all the videos. They are a great resource.
I have an old version of a mock orange. Or at least it is supposed to be. It doesn't have a fragrance??? What else could it be if it isn't a mock orange.
