This page contains descriptions and photos of various varieties of Japanese spirea often used in landscape design.
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Golden Princess (S. japonica Golden Princess)
Japanese Spiraea Golden Princess (S. japonica Golden Princess)
A low shrub with an average height of thirty to sixty centimeters loves sunlight, is unpretentious to the composition of the soil and is not afraid of frost.
Pictured is the Golden Princess (S. japonica Golden Princess)
It is distinguished by its slow growth, compact spherical crown and brightly colored leaves, which change color from spring to autumn (from yellow-green to pink).
Golden Princess (S. japonica Golden Princess)
The crop blooms in mid-summer with crimson or lilac flowers collected in corymbose inflorescences.
Golden Princess spirea hedge
It really needs regular pruning. Suitable for solo and composition plantings.
Nana
Japanese Spiraea Nana
A dwarf variety with a compact rounded crown with a diameter of up to eighty centimeters and an average height of about half a meter.
Inflorescence of Spiraea Nana
Long and abundant flowering begins in late June or early July. Corymbose inflorescences consist of red or pink flowers.
The bluish-green, oblong-shaped leaf plates, which have a reddish tint when blooming, turn orange with the arrival of autumn. Frost resistance is average.
Goldflame (S. japonica Goldflame)
In the photo Spiraea japonica ‘Goldflame’
One of the brightest varieties of spirea, whose name translates as “golden flame”.The shrub received this name for its red-brown young leaves with copper and bronze-tinged tips, which seem to glow against the background of the entire plant.
spireya yaponskaya Goldflejm
Throughout all the warm months (from spring to autumn), the leaf plates are painted in various colors and shades - carrot-purple, bright lemon, straw-olive, saffron.
During the flowering period, small raspberry-pink flowers open on young shoots. The average height of the bush is about eighty centimeters, the width reaches one meter.
Macrophylla (S. japonica Macrophylla)
Spiraea japonica Macrophylla
A large spreading shrub about one and a half meters high and wide, it is highly decorative. Young shoots are colored red.
This is what Makrofilla looks like in autumn
With the arrival of autumn, large wrinkled leaf plates about twenty centimeters long acquire shades of red and pink, light brown and orange, purple and yellow.
Flowering Macrophylla
The flowering period lasts from the middle to the end of the summer season. Against the background of attractive foliage, small flowers in pink tones seem to be lost. The culture tolerates frost and urban growing conditions well. It easily adapts to various types of soil, but prefers light and moderately moist soils. An important care item is pruning.
Magic Carpet
Spiraea japonica Magic Carpet
A dwarf plant with a dense cushion-shaped crown. The height of the creeping shrub does not exceed fifty centimeters, the width can reach up to eighty centimeters.
Photo of Magic Carpet in spring
In spring, the shrub is decorated with bright copper-red leaves up to five centimeters in length.They turn lemon yellow in the summer and turn purple and orange in the fall.
From the beginning of summer to the beginning of autumn, spirea blooms profusely with small pink flowers, collected in small inflorescences with a diameter of about five centimeters. The variety is highly resistant to smoke and gas contamination. Prefers to grow in open sunny areas with moderate humidity and deep groundwater.
Firelight (S. japonica Firelight)
Spiraea japonica variety Firelight
This spectacular deciduous shrub is distinguished by its unpretentiousness and high level of winter hardiness. With an average height of sixty to eighty centimeters, the width of its crown reaches one hundred and twenty centimeters.
Firelight (S. japonica Firelight)
The variety attracts attention with the seasonally changing color of the leaf blades: in spring they are orange-red, in summer they are yellow and green with a grayish coating on the reverse side, in autumn they are red, bronze and copper.
Fajerlight
The plant is suitable for areas with different types of soil and different light levels. The shrub will show all its decorative potential only in an open, sunny area. Recommended for group and single plantings.
Anthony Waterer
Spiraea Anthony Waterer
The spirea variety consists of many straight shoots, narrow-lanceolate leaf blades of a dark green hue and a spreading spherical crown.
Bloom Anthony Waterer
With the onset of autumn, the crown turns purple. The height and width of the bush are approximately the same and amount to about eighty centimeters.
The culture loves fertile and moist areas, sunny places, and needs spring pruning. Timely removal of faded inflorescences prolongs the flowering period.Plants can be planted in urban and suburban conditions; they are resistant to gas pollution and smoke, and winter-hardy.
Shirobana (S. japonica Shirobana)
Japanese spirea Shirobana
This variety has a second name - Japanese tricolor spirea. A peculiarity of the plants is the presence on one bush of flowers of pink, red and white colors at the same time.
Shirobana (S. japonica Shirobana)
In autumn, you can see many shades on the leaf plates. The average height of the crop is from fifty to seventy centimeters, the crown is up to one meter and twenty centimeters.
Shirobana (S. japonica Shirobana)
Without regular pruning, the bushes will look sloppy, so timely trimming requires a lot of attention. Flowering occurs in the second half of summer. In a favorable climate, re-blooming is possible in early autumn.
Darts Red (S. japonica Dart`s Red)
Darts Red (S. japonica Dart`s Red)
Low crops consist of branched shoots and a very dense crown. Its diameter and height of the bush are approximately one hundred to one hundred and ten centimeters. The plants are decorative in their reddish young shoots and leaves, burgundy, pink and crimson flowers.
Darts Red (S. japonica Dart`s Red)
From June to September, the rounded shrubs are decorated with numerous flat inflorescences. The variety is not afraid of frost and grows well in megacities and in ordinary garden plots. Does not make any special demands on the soil, loves sunlight. Used in a group of plants and as an independent crop.
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Spiraea Japanese Macrophylla is distinguished by large, up to 20 cm long and 10 cm wide, swollen wrinkled leaves, which when blooming have a purple-red color, later become green, and in the fall they acquire golden-yellow tones. The most powerful and fastest growing variety of Japanese spirea. Belongs to the group of summer-flowering spirea. Used in single and group plantings, when creating borders and flower beds, tree and shrub groups, shrub mixborders, edges, mixed with perennial groups.