{"id":510,"date":"2016-04-06T04:05:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-06T11:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/?p=510"},"modified":"2016-03-30T11:09:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-30T18:09:31","slug":"first-lessons-on-spirea-shrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenerstips.co.uk\/blog\/flowers\/first-lessons-on-spirea-shrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirea Shrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I have two very good Spirea varieties where I have long since lost the names. This example is a strong flowering mauve and white flowering plain leaved type. The other is a pale yellow leaved variety that has great colour in spring as the leaves start.<\/p>\n

How hard was it going to be to identify the plants surely it can’t be too hard. I went to my copy of Hilliers Manual of Trees and Shrubs<\/a> only to find over 80 species, varieties and cultivars described.<\/p>\n

Well the next lesson is that I haven’t even considered my Spirea’s habits and Hillier identified those that flower on this years wood and those that flower on previous years wood – how have they thrived on my random pruning regime?<\/p>\n

My first shrub is 6 -8 feet wide and currently covered in blossom on the ends of this years growth. I am going to give it a hard prune almost to the ground in March working on the thesis that it is a bumalda- japonica- douglasii .<\/p>\n

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AGM Spirea varieties<\/h3>\n