23+ Spirea Japonica Fall Color

It is difficult to match oakleaf hydrangea for year round interest but gold mound spirea spiraea japonica gold mound comes close offering three season interest with spring foliage summer flowers and fall color. Fall color is a russet red that persists late into season.

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Spirea japonica fall color

Spiraea japonica shirobana sku 7128 a small deciduous shrub with bright green leaves on slender stems that are blanketed with white pink and red bloom clusters in the summer. Nippon spirea is an upright mounded shrub reaching 4 to 5 feet tall and wide with graceful overhanging branches. Spring or fall for best results.

A 3 feet high mounded shrub with rich red flower clusters reddish new growth turns dark green. This extraordinary combination of colors will brighten and enhance any landscape. Spiraea japonica goldflame is a small shrub to 2 to 3 feet high with orange gold tinted new growth that softens to light green in summer then copper orange in fall.

Nippon spirea spiraea nipponica. Double play red spirea spiraea japonica. Spirea bushes do very well as a focal plant in the landscape or as part of a larger grouping for a screen or border.

In fall the finely serrated green leaves turn shades of yellow red and orange. Plant in spring or fall. If your soil is in very poor condition amend the soil you ve removed from the hole with a small amount of compost.

In addition to the golden fall color that gives this 2 to 3 foot tall shrub its name splashes of light red find their way onto the yellow leaves in autumn. Dig a hole only as deep as the root ball and 2 to 3 times as wide. Full sun 6 hours part sun 4 6 hours full shade up to 4 hours.

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