Blue False Spirea

False spireas form large masses of arching branches that are covered with green pinnate leaves.

Blue false spirea. Its tidy upright growth habit and profusion of flowering spikes make it an essential part of the summer landscape. Likes part sun to moderate shade. The deep blue green leaves are a handsome attribute during the summer months. Nippon spirea is an upright mounded shrub reaching 4 to 5 feet tall and wide with graceful overhanging branches. Nippon spirea spiraea nipponica. It is a shade loving perennial plant that will flower even in full shade. Sorbaria false spirea is a sprawling deciduous shrub sorbaria sorbifolia that bears frothy white flowers in panicles at the end of its shoots.

Sorbaria sorbifolia sor bar ee ah sor bih foe lee ah audio if you like plants that stay in tidy little assigned corners this is not the plant for you. The deciduous blue mist spirea caryopteris x clandonensis blue mist provides garden color from midsummer through fall. One of the best blue mist spirea varieties dark knight has the deepest blue color of them all. Active time 30 minutes. Caryopteris blue mist shrub is a shrub also classified as a sub shrub with woody stems that partially die back in the winter or even entirely all the way to the crown of the plant. Bouquet like clusters of small white flowers smother the branches in late spring. Also called blue beard and blue spirea the plant earns its names from.

A hybrid or cross between caryopteris x clandonensi this shrub is non native to any area and hails from the family lamiaceae. But if you have a large space to fill and love plants with attitude this is your baby. Total time 30 minutes. Astilbe is also known as false spirea and goat s beard. Billowy white sprays of flowers appear in mid. Department of agriculture plant hardiness zones 2 through 8. Caryopteris x clandonensis commonly called bluebeard blue spirea or blue mist is a low mounded deciduous shrub that is valued for its aromatic foliage and late summer flowers which are said to resemble clouds of blue smoke or mist.

Easy care but water more in very hot. A reliable performer dark knight flowers heavily every year.