Berezolistaya spirea, also called “May snow”, adorns the gardens with a whole fountain of magnificent white flowers that compete in beauty with primroses and spring fruit trees. It grows quickly, incredibly magnificent and branchy. It is also winter hardy and undemanding to soil. Just like Spirea Wangutta. Photos of these plants are striking - they look like a flower explosion. Almost everyone can get this beautiful and unusual shrub on their site.
Birch leaf spirea
The name of this plant comes from the Greek word "spiral". It is this form that the bends of the spirea branches take. In our country, a shrub is often called a meadowsweet. But this is not entirely correct. These plants are similar to each other, but this is not the same species. Birch leaf spirea is common in the forest-steppe zone, in the steppes and semi-deserts. This shrub is small. In natural conditions, it has a different shape - a pyramid, a ball, an oval. Species vary in leaf color. As well as the way they change their shade with the onset of autumn. Having set the goal to ensure continuous flowering in your garden, you can pick up plants (a spirea bush will do just fine) that will replace each other from spring to mid-autumn and will please the eye. To do this, you need to study each species well, adapt it to the soil and understand which place it should take.
The most spectacular spirea are, of course, snow-white.
The flowers are individually nondescript, very small and numerous. They are collected in inflorescences of various shapes. There is a birch leaf spirea that blooms in spring. But sometimes it happens in the summer. Spring forms more often with white flowers. And summer - with raspberry, pink or red. They are also characterized by longer flowering. All forms are undemanding to growing conditions, can grow even in the city, on a gas-polluted flower bed. After planting, bloom in the third year.
Watering, pruning and crown shaping
Despite the undemanding nature, spirea on fertilized soils grows more magnificent, and its flowering is more plentiful.
If there is a need to make a hedge out of a plant, you should plant bushes at a distance of about half a meter from each other. Best if landing occurs in September, in rainy weather. Landing pit must be provided with good drainage. In spring, the plant needs to be fed. Water moderately. Young spirea need loosening the soil and removing weeds. It is better to sprinkle the roots with a middle layer of peat. It is recommended that attention be paid to crown formation. Moreover, spirea tolerate pruning excellently. After it, the branches grow very quickly. How exactly each particular spirea should be cut should be clarified after studying where flower buds form on the plant. On the spirea of Wangutt and Thunberg, they are formed along the entire length of the shoot. Therefore, they can not be cut annually in any case. But birch leaf spirea must be cut annually, in early spring. It is propagated by cuttings and layering. The rooting rate is very high. This is another big plus of this unpretentious shrub.