Pacific Northwest Gardening: Your experience with mock orange?, 1 by summerkid

summerkid wrote:
I have a random bare-root Philadelphus x virginalis to put somewhere. But advice on growth habit seems to be all over the place -- would I be happy with it in the front shrubbery, where I am ripping out a huge dogwood? Its neighbors would be a lilac, beauty berry, rhodies & what looks to be a small-leaved laurel. (In the photo, looking east, it's the border on the right. Even further to the right, as a backdrop to this shrubbery, is a thick streetside row of cypresses cut to about 10 feet.)

If it is indeed more tree-like than hedgerow material, it can go on the hillside out back by itself.

Would be delighted to get any feedback before I toss this thing in the ground somewhere.