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Spirea

Summer flowering Japanese Spireas offer several months of color yet demand virtually no care.  As a colorful bonus, fall foliage concludes the year with a blaze of yellow, orange or red.  Some cultivars will reach 4' or higher, but the shorter named varieties are more common.  Japanese Spireas are at home among a great variety of sun-loving shrubs, perennials and annuals. Although fast growing, tough and tolerant of many soils, Spirea will prefer well drained conditions.

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Common Name: Japanese 'Spirea'
Botanical Name : Spiraea japonica 'Gumball'

Dependable and carefree, this selection uses its densely held, medium green foliage as a backdrop for flattened globes of pink flowers that begin in mid-June and continue intermittently throughout the summer. 'Gumball' loves full sun and appreciates regular pruning to rejuvenate and set new flower buds.

Matures 2-3' tall and 3-4' wide.     Hardy to Zone 4
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Common Name: Japanese 'Spirea'
Botanical Name : Spiraea bumulda 'Neon Flash'

Tough, durable, and attractive, 'Neon Flash' catches your eye throughout the growing season with deep green foliage that has just a hint of burgundy lining the leafy edge, profuse heads of electric reddish-pink flowers starting in mid-June and continuing into late July, and outstanding burgundy-red fall foliage color. This easy care selection is very happy in full sun and is a beauty singly or massed in big groups.

Matures 2-3' tall and 4-5' wide.     Hardy to Zone 4
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Common Name: Japanese 'Spirea'
Botanical Name : Spiraea fritschiana 'Pink Parasols'

A bloomin' masterpiece, this easy care shrub boasts tightly packed blue-green foliage and a dense, mounding form that is perfect for landscape groupings. You'll forget all about these great attributes once 'Pink Parasols' blooms in June and big umbrellas of buds open to masses of fluffy pink flowers that inundate the plant, causing it to look like a mounded, pink cloud in the landscape.  A Proven Winners Color Choice selection.

Moderate grower, rounded form 3 to 5 feet tall and wide.     Hardy to Zone 4
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Common Name: Japanese 'Spirea'
Botanical Name : Spiraea x media 'Snowstorm'
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This prolific early-May blooming Spirea will give you winter flashbacks when you see it in bloom due to its mounds of snowy white flower heads. this incredible display of drifting white color is effective alone but grouped as a dense border planting is a powerful landscape statement. 'Snowstorm' is easy to grow, very tolerant and stays in a size that makes it a breeze to work with in most any part of your yard.  A Proven Winners Color Choice selection.

Moderate grower, rounded form 3 to 5 feet tall and wide.     Hardy to Zone 4
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