yes.....or very close to it.

Thanks for the reply. I wasn’t sure the timing of it all

i dont understand.. what would make you think otherwise???

is this one of the bushes you dragged around the yard during the makeover???

if so.. make sure it has enough water during the heat of august .... drought or lack of roots might be the only thing that interferes with the rest of the flower production ....

and nothing interferes with the genetic flower color .. unless.. unbeknownst to you... there were 2 different shrubs planted next to each other .... way back when ....

ken

Nope still in their original place. I just thought it was odd to be changing colors this late in the season. But like I said, I know nothing about them!

These are not changing colors :-) What you see is the older, spent blooms (dry and brown) and a few sporadic late new flowers (hot pink). Spiraeas often throw sporadic late blooms well into fall.

These are the first pink I’ve seen this year after I cut them to the ground last Spring.

Well...they DID bloom earlier, otherwise those brown, spent flowerheads would not be there :-) You must have missed or overlooked the earlier flowering.

as to your title... i presume its a typo.. and you know these are spirea ... not spires ... AL

WAYS.. and i mean always.. blame spellcheck.. lol... wish we had it back when i was in school....

ken

https://duckduckgo.com/?t=ffcm&q=spirea&iax=images&ia=images

Correct. Even though I’m not sure I’ve ever used the word spires in my life lol

Those look great! I have a perfect spot I’d like to move mine but I’m a little leery

I moved one this spring, just up & over a few feet b/c Im OCD & it was uneven w/ the other one directly across from it - they are each flanking the front corners of my wrought iron gazebo. No ill effect from the move, it kept right on blooming! The one plant I dread moving is a peony. They supposedly DESPISE being moved & can live 100 yrs or more, so Ive read. And yet Ive moved 4 of them (when we bought this house) and all survived! Maybe b/c I put a base layer of horse manure in the new hole first before planting? IDK. All I know is, peonies have super long carrot like roots & its almost impossible to not break some in half while digging them up. I added manure to the new spirea hole before planting too & made sure to water it frequently for the first 2 months after moving it. If you want to move yours, I think it will be ok. Early fall is a great time to plant.

@Rebecca/N. IN/z6A, I dug and divided some of my grandfather’s peonies in July because the house was being sold. It took them a year to recover, but they were fine. you just have to plant them at the proper depth and then give them reasonable aftercare.

@Illini Fan, go ahead and move the spirea now. In the fall, plants are doing root growth, plus the soil is warm while the air temperatures are decreasing, so there is less stress on the plants. But also, these are plants that are pretty hard to kill IME.