Pink spireas (48 photos): paniculate and other species, planting and care, description of varieties. How a shrub with pink flowers reproduces

Popular varieties

The breeding works that are carried out with Japanese spirea are mainly aimed at its zoning and increasing winter hardiness.

The most common varieties in our region:

Bulata (Bullata) is a dwarf, only 35 cm in height, a bush densely covered with wrinkled bluish-green leaves. Inflorescences are dense, pinkish. A wonderful ground cover.
Crispa (Crispa) is a medium-sized bush, up to 60 cm, wide. Leaves are ovoid, slightly wavy, first reddish, then green; turn bronze in autumn. The flowers are mauve; flowering lasts up to 2 months.
Darts red is a spherical bush, decorated with pinkish inflorescences.
Shirobana (Shirobana) is a round, medium-sized bush with two-colored white-pink inflorescences.
Japanese spirea Jenpei, or genpei shiroban - bushes are tall, up to 80 cm, spherical. The dark green foliage contrasts with the reddish brown shoots. A distinctive feature of the variety - in each inflorescence there are simultaneously flowers of red, pink and white flowers.
Golden Carpet is a dwarf, up to 20 cm, ground cover with creeping shoots. Leaves are golden, smooth, lanceolate. Occasionally ties greenish-pink inflorescences.
Golden princess (golden princess) - short, up to 50 cm, bush with yellowish-green leaves and pink flowers.
Goldmound is a tall bush covered with pink blossoms. Goldmound's leaves are yellowish green until August.
Golden Flame, or, as this spirea is sometimes called, Goldflame is a medium-sized plant with elongated jagged leaves of a bronze-golden or reddish hue, which turn green at the time of flowering. In the fall, the leaves at Goldflame change color again to golden copper. The bush tied abundantly with bright pink inflorescences. Goldflame blooms for almost two months.
Spirea Japanese Little Princess - Medium-sized wide bush. Leaves are green, turn yellow in autumn. A distinctive feature of the Little Princess is pinkish-red corymbose inflorescences.
Macrophylla (Macrophylla) is a tall, wide bush with large, up to 20 cm, wrinkled leaves, which changes color from purple to green and yellow during the season. Macrophyll's inflorescences are small, pinkish.
Nana is a dwarf plant with pink flowers.
Frobeli (Froebelii) is a tall spirea with broadly ovate leaves that change color from purple to green during the season. Frobeli's inflorescences are bright, rich crimson.
Spirea Japanese Albiflora (Albiflora) is a neat rounded bush about 80 cm high with bright green leaves that turn yellow in autumn. The inflorescences of the Albiflora variety are corymbose, snow-white.
Anthony Waterer is a medium-sized compact bush. The leaves are reddish at first, then green with pinkish veins; turn brick-red before falling off. The inflorescences are bright, carmine.
Magic Carpet (Magic Carpet) - one of the novelties of European selection. The bush is undersized, up to 50 cm; the elongated leaves change color from reddish orange to bright yellow. Abundant budding; flowers are rich, pink.
Firelight is a low-growing bush with orange-red leaves, which first change color to greenish-yellow, and turn bright red in autumn. Firelight inflorescences are deep pink.
Spirea Japanese Grefsheim is tall, with arched branches hanging down, abundantly strewn with snow-white flowers.
Odensala is a tall spherical shrub; the leaves are green in summer, purple for the rest of the season. Inflorescences are large, bright, crimson.
Alpina is a short, wide plant with lanceolate, slightly serrated leaves that turn yellow in autumn.Inflorescences are corymbose, pink.
Spirea Japanese Manon is a compact, medium-sized rounded bush, abundantly covered with carmine-pink inflorescences in July. The leaves, when red in appearance, turn green in summer and reappear reddish-orange in autumn.

Modern varieties of Japanese spirea are more compact in size, such as, for example, Little Princess, Firelight. Breeders are also working on obtaining new, brighter shades of inflorescences, like that of Frobeli's spirea. Although among gardeners, large-leaved Japanese spireas, such as Goldmound or Macrophylla, are still popular.

Shrubs with bright fruits

On cloudy autumn days, the beauty of the garden gradually dissolves and before us is no longer the beloved garden filled with bright colors and splashes of color, but a gray-brown joyless picture. Of course, you shouldn't forget about the blood-red bark grass - this is one of the main accents, but the fruits of the shrubs can also become a decoration of the garden in the autumn-winter period. Spots of color scattered over the site will not allow the glow of its former abundance to go out. Take note of the horizontal cotoneaster, snowberry and wild rose.

Horizontal cotoneaster

Horizontal cotoneaster is a slow-growing creeping shrub with horizontally growing branches up to 80 cm high with small dark green glossy rounded leaves. It blooms with pale pink flowers, and in the middle of summer, small fiery red fruits appear that can last until next spring. Autumn foliage takes on a bright crimson color, which adds to the decorative effect of the garden.

Take a closer look at the frost-resistant varieties Ursinow (USDA 4) up to 0.4 m high and Atropurpureus (USDA 4) up to 80 cm high.This shrub is not sheared, it is used in the garden to create retaining walls, rockeries and fortification of slopes, as well as a cover plant ...

Snowberry

I'm more than sure if you ask what this shrub looks like in summer, almost no one will remember. Indeed, it is true, it is completely inconspicuous, does not stand out in any way against the background of the main green mass. However, with the onset of cold autumn days, when the foliage from most of the trees has already been dropped, it comes to the fore - a snowberry. Everyone knows him from childhood: there is probably not a single child who would not pick white berries and eat them with his hands or feet - it was child's play, although then no one knew the name - just a bush with white berries. Now imagine that the berries are pink, and they are perfectly visible from all corners of the garden, no matter how you turn away. For this truly beautiful outfit, the snowberry can and should be put in a row along with other ornamental shrubs.

Snowberry

When buying a variety of snowberry, pay attention to winter hardiness, there are varieties with winter hardiness zones 5 and 6. Take a closer look at the Mother of Pearl (USDA 3) snowberry variety, up to 1.7 m high, up to 2 m in diameter, or Magic Barry (USDA 4), up to 2 meters high with a spherical openwork crown

With proper and timely cutting, you can maintain the size of the bush at the desired level. In the garden it looks good in a mixborder, in woody compositions and as a low hedge.

Rose hip

Rose wrinkled

Rosehip, aka wrinkled rose, aka rugosa rose is a bush up to 3-4 m high with leaves from light green to dark green. The fruits of this shrub are rich in vitamin C and are often brewed for colds. Sometimes it's nice to combine business with pleasure. Plant a rosehip and you will be healthy, and in winter in the garden on a gray-white background, juicy red-orange fruits will sparkle with new colors.

Rose hip

Do not think that a rose hip is always a super thorny plant with nondescript flowers, there are thornless rose hips with single thorns - Besshorny (USDA 2), Pobeda (USDA 2) - they can be planted near the playground without fear.You can give preference to varieties with large, up to 10-12 g, berries - Jubilee (USDA 2), Apple (USDA 2)

Pay attention to the 2 zone of winter hardiness of this shrub, it can withstand frosts down to -45 ºС

Look closely at Rosa rubiginosa (USDA 2), a species with a lovely apple scent and bright pink flowers. In autumn, the bush is covered with bunches of fruits.

Gray rosehip (Rosa glauca)

The blue rose, or red-leaved (Rosa glauca) (USDA 3), despite its nondescript flowering, will surprise you with dark-gray foliage with purple veins atypical for a rosehip, and in the fall the bush will be strewn with a cascade of bright red fruits.

Rose hips are great for hedges and can be planted with perennials or conifers. Also used to strengthen ravines and slopes, protecting them from erosion.

Rosehip bush is not afraid of a haircut, give it a neat look with pruners or garden shears and you will get a neat bush that will attract the attention of guests and neighbors and you will praise them to tell them that this is just an ordinary rosehip.

Table of decorative qualities of shrubs

* Canadian Derain (Cornus canadensis)
** Gray rosehip (Rosa glauca)

From the history of the Spirea plant

The plant has been known in Russia for a long time. In the epic "Sadko", when the hero's ship stops in the middle of the sea, the participants of the voyage throw "the lot of the tavolzhans". In this way, they reveal who needs to be thrown into the sea as a sacrifice to the sea king.

Given the constancy of the text of the epics over the centuries, it can be assumed that the meadowsweet (spirea) attracted the attention of our ancestors even during the formation of the epic “Sadko”, that is

before the annexation of Novgorod to the Moscow Grand Duchy and the destruction of its liberties (1478). True, we do not know and, perhaps, will never know why in those distant times the lot was made from meadowsweet. But from the dictionary of V.I.Dal it is easy to find out that in the steppe zone in the 19th century the meadowsweet had a completely practical and by no means decorative application. Its thin and strong rods went to ramrods and whips. But all these uses of spirits are in the past. Now they only matter as ornamental plants.

In the XVI century. for the first time they began to grow willow spirea (1586). After 200 years, medium and oak-leaved spireas appeared in the culture. At the end of the XIX century. birch spirea was introduced into the culture. Now the northernmost point of cultivation of these species is Kirovsk on the Kola Peninsula, where they are in the collection of the Polar-Alpine Botanical Garden. Some spireas are used in gardening and landscaping quite often, others - only singularly. But almost all species, due to their decorative effect, flowering duration, frost resistance, gas resistance and ease of reproduction, deserve more attention from gardeners.

Spirea Thunberg

The genus includes about 80-100 species, distributed mainly in the forest-steppe, steppe and semi-desert zones, the subalpine belt of the mountains of the Northern Hemisphere.

Deciduous shrub, rarely exceeding 2 m in height. The natural shape of the bush is very different, there are: pyramidal, weeping, hemispherical, erect, creeping, cascading, etc. The species differ in the shape and color of the graceful leaves, many change their green outfit in the fall to orange, yellow or purple-red. A large number of the most diverse species allows, with skillful selection, to achieve their continuous flowering from spring to late autumn. Spireas are prized for their abundant and long-lasting flowering. Their flowers are small, but numerous, collected in inflorescences of various shapes: corymbose, paniculate, spike-shaped or pyramidal. Some have single flowers. The color of the flowers is also varied - from pure white to crimson. The decorativeness of the spirits is due not only to the different arrangement of inflorescences on the shoots, but also to the timing of flowering.So, there are species, the inflorescences of which completely cover the entire shoot (sharp-serrated spirea); in others, the inflorescences are located only on the upper part of the shoots (middle spirea; Bumald's spirea); in the third - at the ends of the shoots (spirea willow; Japanese spirea).

By the time of flowering, they are divided into two groups - spring flowering and summer flowering. In the former, flowering usually occurs on the shoots of the last year and the flowers are white in color; the representatives of the second group have pink, red, crimson flowers, and flowering occurs on the shoots of the current year. This division is reflected in the agrotechnics of spirea care; species blooming in spring are pruned immediately after flowering, and blooming in the second half of summer - only in spring. Plants of the first group bloom together, but for a short time, in the second group, the flowering is more extended.

All spireas are undemanding to the soil, light-requiring, frost-resistant, many types of smoke and gas-resistant, tolerate city conditions well. Easily reproduce by dividing the bush, cuttings, layering, shoots and seeds. They grow quickly, bloom in the third year.

Spirea Douglas

Planting and caring for Douglas spirea

Spiraea Douglasii is a perennial, summer-flowering plant; it is assigned to a permanent place in early spring, when the soil has thawed so much that planting work can be carried out, or in the fall, until the sap flow has ended and the foliage has not dropped.

Preparation of planting material and site

Spirea Douglas is a thermophilic plant that can grow in one place for up to 15 years, this factor is taken into account when choosing a site. The bush can be in the shade for a certain time without prejudice to flowering, for example, several hours a day. Constant shading and dampness are unacceptable for the species.

Soils for planting are chosen fertile, loose, well-drained. The composition of the soil is slightly acidic or neutral. The roots of the plant are fibrous, prone to decay. If there is groundwater in the area close to the surface, the shrub will die. An unsuitable place for planting is a lowland with a lack of lighting and accumulation of water.

Planting material is chosen with a well-developed, healthy root system. Damaged areas or dry fragments are cut out before planting. The seedling is dipped in a manganese solution for 2 hours, then placed in an agent that stimulates root growth for a day. Treat with fungicide.

Landing rules

If the Douglas spirea is part of the composition, it is planted in the hole. For a hedge, seedlings are placed in a trench, the depth in both cases is 50 cm.The width of the hole is 15 cm larger than the root system, the distance between the bushes is 60 cm. The algorithm of actions:

A twenty-centimeter layer of drainage (pebbles, gravel) is laid on the bottom.
A soil mixture is poured on top, consisting of equal parts of the fertile layer and compost.
A spirea is vertically installed in the middle, the roots are distributed, and covered with soil. The root collar should be 3 cm above the surface.
They compact the earth, water it, and mulch it with peat.

Watering and feeding

Spirea Douglas does not require constant watering, it is enough twice a month, but with plenty of water. If the weather is dry, the irrigation is increased. Do not allow the soil to dry out, as well as waterlogging. Be sure to loosen the soil and remove weeds.

Top dressing is applied in the spring at the beginning of the growing season, diluted in water with organic matter, after two weeks with superphosphate agents. Fertilizer "Kemira Universal" applied at the root has an effective effect on the growth of shrubs.

Douglas spirea pruning

Spirea Douglas blooms in summer, the crown is formed in spring, before the leaves appear. Remove old branches and young growth that thickens the crown. Frozen shoots are cut out, the tops are shortened. A young plant is cut off the top to well-developed buds.

After four years of growth, the Douglas spirea is subjected to cardinal pruning, 25 cm are left from the root.The shrub will quickly restore new shoots without sacrificing flowering.Cutting off the tops is impractical, the spirea will form thin stems with small inflorescences. Pruning activities continue every year. If the Douglas spirea gives a weak growth, the plant is transplanted to another site.

Preparing for winter

The frost-hardy culture of spiraea Douglasii, grown in the European zone, tolerates a drop in temperature well if certain preventive measures are taken. The root system of the plant is shallow, so shelter is needed. The root circle is mulched with dry leaves, peat or needles, preliminarily spire Douglas spirea with soil by 30 cm. There is no need to bend and cover the branches, in the spring the bush will quickly recover, it is better to tie the shoots into a bunch.