Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot

Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot

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Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot
  • Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot
  • Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot
  • Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot
  • Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot
  • Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot
Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot

Daphne Spirea - 3 Gallon Pot

$55.98
$55.98 $60.00
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Description

Daphne Spirea
Spirea japonica 'Alpina'

Other Names:  Alpina Spirea


Plant Details & Attributes

USDA Cold Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b  Find Your Zone 
Plant Type:  Deciduous Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity:  2'
Width at Maturity:  4-5'
Spacing:  3.5-4' for hedges, 6'+ for space between
Growth Habit / Form:  Dense, Bushy, Mounding
Growth Rate:  Fast
Flower Color:  Soft Pink to Pink shades
Flower Size:  Tiny, packed in 2-3" clusters
Flowering Period:  Summer, Reblooms, shear spent blooms to promote rebloom
Flower Type:  Clusters
Fragrant Flowers:  -
Foliage Color:  Blue-Green
Fragrant Foliage:  -
Berries:  -
Berry Color:  -
Sun Needs:  Full Sun or Mostly Sun; 6 or more hours of sunlight daily
Water Needs:  Average, Low Once Established
Soil Type:  Clay (well-draining), Loam, Sandy, Silt 
Soil Moisture / Drainage:  Moist But Well Drained; drought-tolerant when established
Soil pH:  5.5 - 7.5 (Acid to Moderately Alkaline)
Maintenance / Care:  Low
Attracts:  Butterflies, Beneficial Polinators, Visual Attention
Resistances:  Cold Temperatures (-30F), Deer, Disease, Drought (when established), Insect


Description

Daphne Spirea, Spirea japonica 'Alpina', is a charming dwarf that forms a lush mound only 2 feet high and up to 5 feet wide when all grown up. From late spring to early summer, her soft-textured, mint blue-green foliage is nearly smothered in fuzzy-looking clusters of pink flowers. The flowers age to soft pink and almost white, with all colors showing on the plant simultaneously. If the spent flowers are sheared, you can expect a rebloom. Daphne Spirea is an adorable accent in smaller garden beds or groupings, or as a low hedge where space allows. She is exceptionally drought tolerant when established and cold hardy to -30°F, and likes six or more hours of direct sunlight per day. It is one of those flowering shrubs that will always have you looking forward to summer. 

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing in a low mound up to 2 feet tall and 4 to 5 feet wide, Daphne Spirea is ideal for use as an accent in small garden spaces or groupings or as a border in larger landscape spaces. Also excellent on sunny slopes or as an underplanting for small trees such as Japanese maples or Crape Myrtles, provided there's enough sun exposure. Also nice as a front-facing plant to taller evergreens in home foundation plantings. It is a fine addition to pink theme gardens, butterfly gardens, rock gardens, Asian gardens, rock gardens, perennial gardens, and xeric gardens (low water needs).


Growing Preferences

Daphne Spirea is easy to grow in moist, well-drained soil of average fertility and six or more hours of sunlight daily. It is highly drought-tolerant when established. A light shearing of spent flowers after the summer bloom encourages rebloom. It flowers on new wood, so prune in late winter to early spring if desired. Older plants can be cut back to the ground in late winter for rejuvenation.


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