Hairy Mock Orange - Gardening Place

If having a garden filled with the scent of orange blossoms appeals to you, add mock orange shrubs to your gardening wish list. These fragrant deciduous shrubs are at their best in spring and early ... Another possibility, a longshot, is the English expression hairy at the heel, common in the late 19th century.

A horse with hair about the heels or fetlocks was an underbred one, so the expression was used figuratively for an ill-bred, bad-mannered, thoroughly unpleasant person, as was hairy.