If it is a Spiraea - when should it be pruned please - I remember it once had white blossoms but it hasn't flowered this year so think I must have pruned it at the wrong time. If it isn't a Spiraea - ? what it is please
It is one of the Spring flowering Spirea , depends on what shape you want it to be . Some shape it round it off immediately after its finished flowering or remove some old branches to the base. It flowers on old wood so any growth this year will provide flowers for next year. If you do round it off you don't tend to get the long graceful arching stems full of flowers.
@Perki is right - they flower on the previous year's growth, so if you do nothing to it, you should have flowers next spring. They do look best when they're allowed to do their 'natural' thing and have that fountain of white flowers. I love them
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
They can look like fireworks in autumn too, if left to their own devices a bit
This isn't mine, but it always made me smile in the way to work You can prune them back quite hard, but if you want to lower the height, you can take individual stems out to keep a more natural shape, rather than just hacking everything back to the same height.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
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They do look best when they're allowed to do their 'natural' thing and have that fountain of white flowers. I love them
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
This isn't mine, but it always made me smile in the way to work
You can prune them back quite hard, but if you want to lower the height, you can take individual stems out to keep a more natural shape, rather than just hacking everything back to the same height.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...