Specialty Gardening: Mock Orange...to be or not to be..., 1 by Meredith79

Meredith79 wrote:
Hi, I wanted to share my experience. I noticed a huge Mock Orange that is as tall as the power lines and it smelled wonderful and had a Tiger Swallowtail on it. A friend of mine has no problem driving around and digging up plants she wants from the side of the road and ripped out an off shoot with some roots. I planted it not knowing if it would survive but it did. So last year it had a few flowers and I did not notice any scent.. This year it was loaded with flowers but I couldn't notice the smell unless I picked a flower and sniffed it. My thought on it is that the weather has not been right for the fragrance to be very noticeable. Right now I have a tree which we call a Bean Tree. Not sure what it's botanical name is, however that tree's fragrance was very noticeable yesterday but I had never noticed it was fragrant before. Another thing I'm thinking is it could take a very lot of blooms to get that heavy fragrance in the air. Perhaps ours are just too small still.