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Tue, May 10, 11 at 9:47
| This is my second spring in this house. The first year I hacked back a tangled mass of vines and shrubs that blocked a pathway. This year I let them grow back a bit and this one bloomed beautifully.
The bark on the stems is flaky in places, and the flowers smell a lot like honeysuckle and a bit like gardenia. I like this shrub so much I might want to get some more of it - I just need to know what it is first! http://www.flickr.com/photos/mtrainiermd/sets/72157626689886928/ |
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| I believe that is Mock orange, Philadelphus. Probably the non-native one if you have some fragrance. |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Tue, May 10, 11 at 11:20
| Yep, Philadelphus coronarius or some cultivar thereof :-) This is a suckering shrub (like lilacs), so relatively easy to separate exterior young suckers/shoots to start new plants. There was a mock orange like this planted outside my bedroom window when I was growing up.....the wonderful fragrance - strongest on a warm evening - is very evocative and triggers all sort of pleasant memories of my childhood :-) |
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| When I got married we had no money. I bought a bunch of yellow roses in the market and pinched a load of mock orange from over someone's garden wall. Quite the classiest bouquet imaginable. |
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- Posted by mtrainiermd none (My Page) on Fri, May 13, 11 at 23:18
| Thank you all! I am going to try to propagate it so it grows somewhere other than behind the tool shed. |
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