Spireas, of course, are the poster child for low-maintenance plants, which is how they ended up in that maligned landscaper’s trio. Glow Girl, to the right in this photo, anchors a palette of fall color in my garden. There are other birchleaf spireas (look for a cultivar name that includes ‘Tor’) on the market that look equally lovely, I’ve just not had the opportunity to grow them personally. I’ve talked about Double Play Blue Kazoo here before and it continues to be at the top of my list, but few shrubs in my garden provide the kind of three-season interest I get from birchleaf spirea, specifically Proven Winners’ Glow Girl variety. There are several excellent spireas on the market these days, a testament to the wonders of plant breeding, which has changed it from a reliable but unnoteworthy shrub to a must-have garden shrub.
Without fail, I come back to them and eat my words. One thing I’ve learned gardening is that I really need to stop swearing off plants. Somewhere along the line this combination became the standard planting along every foundation in every new subdivision here.Įven as a novice gardener I swore I’d never plant spirea, such was my disdain for this shrub. For a time it was, to me, the most boring of shrubs, the least interesting of what I call the “landscaper’s trio” of spirea, daylilies (almost always ‘Stella d’Oro’) and a (usually sickly looking) hydrangea. More than once I’ve written here about the misconceptions I had about spirea.
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