General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: |
Shrub
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Life cycle: |
Perennial
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Sun Requirements: |
Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
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Water Preferences: |
Mesic
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Soil pH Preferences: |
Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
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Plant Height: |
5 to 8 feet, even to 10 feet |
Plant Spread: |
6 to 7 feet |
Leaves: |
Deciduous
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Flowers: |
Showy
Blooms on old wood
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Flower Color: |
White
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Flower Time: |
Spring
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Uses: |
Cut Flower
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Wildlife Attractant: |
Bees
Butterflies
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Propagation: Other methods: |
Cuttings: Stem
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Pollinators: |
Bees
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Parentage: |
Spiraea cantoniensis x Spiraea trilobata |
- Van Houtte Spiraea
- Spiraea
- Spiraea cantoniensis 'Vanhouttei'
Posted by
ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Feb 8, 2018 10:09 AM concerning plant:
This is an old-fashioned plant that was planted a lot around the foundations of old houses in the late 1800's and the first half of the 20th century, as was Common Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus). It is a hybrid between two Chinese species of similar spireas made about 1862. Most every conventional nursery has gone to selling a few newer cultivars of similar spirea species and hybrids instead since the 1990's. This is one of the classic "Bridalwreaths" still offered by some mail order nurseries. I have seen a few still around, especially close to old houses in the Midwest and Mid-Atlantic Regions of the US. I believe this hybrid is sterile and does not bear seed, and does not ever become one of the invasive Eurasian plants that escape cultivation, as I have never seen seedlings around. Later in autumn it gets a nice orange fall color with some yellow, red, and purple tones. Like other spireas it has a shallow, fibrous root system. It does get very twiggy that shows up in winter and it can be heavily or drastically renew pruned right after it blooms.
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