Please join me for an Outdoor Wednesday with Susan at http://asoutherndaydreamer.blogspot.com. Today my feature involves a few details about one of my favorite plants.
SWEET MOCK ORANGE or ENGLISH DOGWOOD
This is an old fashioned shrub. It has long, arching branches with rich green leaves covered with white flowers in the spring as if covered with twinkling lights.
The fragrance from the flowers will scent your whole yard. The white blooms last for several weeks. They are a popular flower for weddings.
After rain or high wind, this is what happens to the sweet little flowers. It looks a light snow has fallen, but they still smell nice.
I was blessed with this great plant about four years ago. It was just a tiny plant. My niece, Coloradolay, ordered them off the internet. Hers went to glory, and you can see what happened to mine. I love it and so thankful it has survived for me.
21 comments:
Lovely flowers! I love the sweet scent overflowing the garden!
OUTDOOR WEDNESDAY
That's so pretty, wish I could smell it!! Love and Blessings, Angel
Thank you for your kind comments! I also wish I could smell this flower, I will have to try and locate it at the garden centers. I love heavily scented bushes! It really is very large! So glad yours survived, it's beautiful!
What a beautiful plant. Now I wish I had one for the frangrance...you made it sound so tempting :)
We have a mock orange plant here but it isn't like that one. Ours has tiny flowers and I use it in our hedges. Yours is beautiful with those big flowers.
Best wishes and happy Wednesday!
Natasha.
They are just beautiful! I love white flowers!
I hope you're having a wonderful week!
: )
Julie M.
I always love the heavy scents of flowering bushes in the spring...beautiful.
Beautiful!!!
Happy Wednesday!
I am new to this blogging as well! I am thrilled that you are out here learning a new world! I would have never thought you were 80!
I enjoyed your pictures! I just love this time of year!
That is a beautiful bush! I wonder If it would grow in our zone 5. There's nothing like the scent filling the yard and house. Happy Outdoor Wed.
Such lovely flowers. It's too bad we don't have smell-o-blogs. I'm sure the air is sweet around your house.
Hello LV,
I love dogwood. The blossoms are so pretty. I am glad yours survived, it looks great.
~ Tracy
I love white flowers, such a pretty plant.
Sunny :)
What a beatuiful bush! Those flowers are gorgeous!
Hi Meme, your pretty shrub looks very happy in your yard. I'm glad it didn't go to glory too. That makes me smile.
Enjoy your day and congrats to Debbie for winning the birdhouse. She will love it.
Hugs, Jeanne
You are just incredible! I can hardly wait till the next blog. Thank you for your energy and enthusiasm, and for showing off the beauty of God's garden. I'm certainly becoming a follower!
This is just a sweet bush! Happy to hear yours has done so well!
Such a pretty little flower. I love flowers - you would think I would know more about them than I do. Thanks for stopping by.
Beautiful flowers and garden, loved the white ones! Thanks so much for stopping by and your kind comments. Hope you visit again soon.
Sandy
Gorgeous plant, LV.... Love those white blossoms. SO pretty!!! Glad it has done so well for you.
We've had a wonderful day today at the beach... Beautiful weather after the rain yesterday (clear, sunny, breezy, warm---PERFECT)...
Hugs,
Betsy
Beautiful flowers and beautiful flowers! I wish I could smell them!
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