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.

But mock orange will perform reasonably well under high pine shade. I've noticed lots of the weeds you mention in your grass, by the way. I thought they were a wild, annual version of antennaria ...

There were two — Pittosporum tobira, known as Japanese mock orange, and Philadelphus lewisii, wild mock orange. Why are they both listed as mock orange but are completely different plants and ...

I had a vast ugly patch of what I think was cat mint – I am lamentably ignorant of wild flower names ... Philadelphus ‘Belle Étoile’ or the mock orange. It is flowering beautifully ...

And fragrances don’t come much headier than the mock orange blossom or philadelphus ... It is found widely in the wild, from Eastern Europe to the Himalayas, Eastern Asia and North and Central ...