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New Beginnings Garden

Mock Orange - Philadelphus Lewisii

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Growth
  • Deciduous shrub, 5-10 ft, many stems, broadly arching.  Leaves opposite, simple, broadly ovate to broadly elliptic, 1-4" long. Flowers white, 4(5)-petals, yellow anthers, 1-2" across, 3-11 per cluster, VERY FRAGRANT.  Fruit a 4-cell capsule.
  • Sun to part shade, understory plant, thrives in almost any garden soil, prune after flowering.
  • Hardy to USDA Zone 4      Native range from British Columbia to northern California, to Montana and central Idaho, to 7,000 ft elevation in the Cascades.  It was introduced into Britain by David Douglas in 1825.
  • The State Flower of Idaho