Mock Orange Care

While the water needs of freshly placed plants is relatively high, it sinks with increasing age. One should water more often during the first months and years. The soil should at no time dry out and not be too wet. With several years of age, watering should only occasionally be done. When the plant is located at the same location for several years, it usually supplies itself if there are enough amounts of rain water at its disposal.

Even though the Philadelphus shrub doesn’t have to necessarily be cut, under some circumstances certain cutting measures can make sense. The first cut should however not occur before the third or fourth year. Recommended are light form cuts immediately after the flowering as well as cutting measures to rejuvenate, preferably in autumn or winter, when the plant has lost its leaves. Vital are regular cutting measures on hedges. These are harming the growth of blossoms though.

An annual dose of shrub fertiliser in early spring will usually suffice. Pot grown plants will need more regular feeding

Requires full or partial sun

This shrub can tolerate any soil from heavy clay to sandy and well drained. It can also cope with acid or alkaline soil

Most varieties can tolerate temperatures down to -18°C

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