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Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Slightly acid (6.1 – 6.5)
Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Plant Height: 5 to 8 feet, even to 10 feet
Plant Spread: 6 to 7 feet
Leaves: Deciduous
Flowers: Showy
Blooms on old wood
Flower Color: White
Flower Time: Spring
Uses: Cut Flower
Wildlife Attractant: Bees
Butterflies
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Bees
Parentage: Spiraea cantoniensis x Spiraea trilobata

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Common names
  • Van Houtte Spiraea
  • Spiraea
Also sold as:
  • Spiraea cantoniensis 'Vanhouttei'

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Location: Millinocket, Maine
Date: 2023-06-03
Location: San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-03
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-12
Location: Northern California, Zone 9b
Date: 2012-04-07
Mail order plant I bought about 20 years ago called Bridal Wreath
Location: My Garden, Utah
Date: 2014-05-13
Location: Kiskun Museum, Kiskunfélegyháza, Hungary
Date: June 12, 2009
photo by Robert Vidéki via Forestry Images: https://www.forestry
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Date: 2015-04-19

Date: 2020-10-14
photo by Cathy Dewitt, courtesy of NC Cooperative Extension: http
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (near Brussels - Belgium)
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (near Brussels - Belgium)
Location: Kalama, Wa.
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Location: Kalama, Wa.
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Location: San Antonio, Texas
Date: 2022-04-03
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (near Brussels - Belgium)
Location: Jacksonville, Fl.
Date: 2014-03-22

Date: 2018-07-18
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-03-26
shrub during cold half of year
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania 17565
Date: 2017-05-01
Location: My garden, Pequea, Pennsylvania USA
Date: 2018-05-12
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2011-05-08
shrub in bloom
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2012-04-27
shrub in bloom
Location: Downingtown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2012-04-27
close-up of flowers
Location: Jacksonville, TX
Date: 2017-03-07
Location: Allentown, Pennsylvania
Date: 2015-05-22
Location: NE., Fl.
Date: 2011-09-22
Location: Jacksonville, Fl.
Date: 2014-03-28
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Comments:
  • 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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