good spirea, bad? spirea

13 years ago

The picture above is the "good" spirea. It is on the old home place we purchased 7 years ago. It seems very old, is very happy & very pretty. The second spirea Bonnie gave me, she calls it Shirt Button Spirea. It is also very pretty, but starting to wonder if it is more of a weedy one? The second spirea is planted at our other property and just doesn't seem to have the nice swooping shape like the first one. Maybe because it is not as old? The reason I suspect #2 is a weedy type is because at the property #1, I found the same type of Shirt Button spirea last year all of a sudden growing around a crape myrtle the way suckers would do. I really do believe #1 and #2 are not the same type of spirea. I guess my question is, Can someone ID #1 and #2 (will post pix below) and tell me if #2 is indeed just a weedy undesirable.

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dinajean(SCzone7b)
Original Author
13 years ago
Above is the good spirea with a close-up of the leaves, here is spirea # 2, don't have a close-up of leaves, but maybe you can zoom in? if not, I will go get a picture of the leaves to post.
dinajean(SCzone7b)
Original Author
13 years ago
Here are the leaves from Spirea #2 planted at property #2, and the leaves from around the crepe myrtle at property # 1
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
13 years ago
i dont have time to do it for you .. as to 2 ..

google : bridal veil spirea

and after 30 years at mom's house.. yes.. it has an ugly'ish form ... in less than full sun ... jammed against the house .. etc ...

so what.. lol

i think you are spot on.. comparing a plant with 10+ years growth.. to a recent transplant.. its just not fair ....

ignore it for a few years.. then decide

ken

Here is a link that might be useful: i got curious
flora_uk
13 years ago
The second one is Spiraea prunifolia 'plena'

The first could be Spiraea cantonensis 'flore pleno'
dinajean(SCzone7b)
Original Author
13 years ago
Thank you all so much!