Saturday, June 17, 2017

Tree #110 Mock orange (Philadelphus x virginalis)

My next door neighbor has a well-tended densely-planted front yard garden. His northeast anchor plant is a mock orange. The shrub is covered with white flowers in April.


A wide shot showing some early lilies in front (April 14, 2017)


Some closer views of the flowers
These four petal white flowers remind me of childhood memories of dwarf dogwood flowers in Alaska (not related). The dwarf dogwood are ground cover plants just inches tall.

I went back to this plant in June to get a summer image. 
June 17 2017 view of the same mock orange. Now the lilies are in bloom
The flowering tree on the left edge was the subject of another post on Bottlebrush buckeye. The hedge next to the mock orange actually belongs to the next yard. This hedge was just trimmed last week by a man with a drenched shirt quite early in the morning. hard work.

As I was going through some old emails I found two more pictures of the mock orange from 2016, but the date is not known. 

The flowers blooming now are iris (sometime before the lilies)

A stunning flower-laden view
 

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