19+ Double Mock Orange Bush

This long time favorite naturally grows 6 8 feet tall but can be pruned to any height.

Double mock orange bush. Buy double mock orange at spring hill nursery a wonderful orange blossom like fragrance makes this showy white flowered shrub very popular. Mulching the area around the shrub will help the soil retain moisture and minimize watering needs. Very fragrant double white flowers 2 inches across adorn each slender gracefully erect branch. Vigorous and easy to grow it s great for foundation plantings or shrub borders. Full sun to partial shade 6 10 bloom time. It is classified as a shrub bush although some people refer to mock orange trees mock orange shrubs are rich with nectar and attract butterflies. Companion plants as a border background mock orange provides the ideal background for bold double red garden peony paeonia lactiflora double red fairy tale pink daylily hemerocallis hybrids fairy tale pink and coral bells hardy azalea azalea coral bells.

Plants are deciduous shedding their leaves in winter. Blends nicely in a semishaded condition with red n pretty hydrangea hydrangea macrophylla monred or group for fall. Fragrant as orange blossoms. Double mock orange vigorous and easy to grow a wonderful orange blossom like fragrance makes this showy white flowered shrub very popular. Mainly tall sometimes arching shrubs with richly scented flowers in early summer. As the mock in its name suggests mock orange is not a true orange. Special features of mock oranges philadelphus x virginalis virginal has attractive white double flowers with an outstanding fragrance in the late spring to early summer season on a 6 to 8 foot tall shrub.

Very fragrant double white flowers 2 inches across adorn each slender gracefully erect branch. Like the orange blossoms they resemble they aren t relatives these flowers have a lovely fragrance. Mock orange is generally speaking deciduous and multi stemmed with a height and spread that are roughly the same. Care of mock orange bush your mock orange shrub will require consistent moisture until it s established and though it is somewhat drought tolerant the bush prefers to be kept in moist conditions. Mid to late summer bareroot 4 to 8 10. Mock orange these deciduous shrubs are the real deal when it comes to scent. Usually pure white and cup shaped some flowers have a maroon central blotch or are double flowered.

Double mock orange direct gardening fragrant as orange blossoms. This improved mock orange hybrid blooms profusely during may and june. Also available are several low arching cultivars to spill over the front of a border.