This week… Spiraea
SPIRAEAS are tough, easy-to-grow, deciduous shrubs, flowering in spring or summer, that are grown for their colourful foliage, their attractive heads of tiny flowers or both.
Long-lived, well-behaved, adaptable and tolerant, the flowers of spring varieties are usually white, often a very clean and bright white, presented in flat heads or they may come in pink cylindrical spikes. The flowers of summer varieties are mostly pink or reddish-purple and are gathered into broad flat heads.
