Little Princess Spirea Winter

Great shrub for low border foundation or specimen planting. Flower size 2 growth rate fast.

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Little princess spirea winter

Many of these produce flowers right after pruning. Completely enrobed in dainty clusters of light pink flowers from late spring through early summer little princess reigns supreme as a showy low maintenance accent shrub for gardens with limited space. This deciduous shrub is pest disease and deer resistant.

Spirea pink pruning winter care and fertilizing spirea pink summer blooming includes a. Little princess spirea cultivar is a dense upright compact mounded deciduous shrub which has narrow dark blue green foliage. It tolerates a wide range of soils and should be pruned in late winter to early spring.

2 feet tall and 3 feet wide. Some of the popular spireas are spiraea arguta billardii bumalda goldflame golden princess japonica anthony waterer japonica shirobana little princes snowmound and thunbergii. Tiny pink flowers in flat topped clusters corymbs cover the foliage from late spring to mid summer with sparse and intermittent repeat bloom sometimes.

Prune these shrubs in early spring before they leaf out. Spray your spirea in january or february with dormant spray available from your local nursery or home improvement center. Japanese spirea should be tip pruned in late winter or early spring prior to bud swell and before the shrub leafs out.

Dormant spray is a mix of horticultural oil and either sulfur or copper. Flower form single. The flowers of japanese japonica spirea ones occur after trimming during late winter.

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