Searing heat and growling blizzards evoke the same response in me: I retreat, grudgingly, indoors and clean closets, drawers and files. I start looking for a place to put al lof the small, miscellaneous (obviously important) bits and pieces. It’s the same with gardening. It’s hot. I’m going through magazines, notes and files. Here are [...]
# Common name: Speedwell “Goodness Grows”
# Botanical name: Veronica spicata “Goodness Grows”
# What it is: A short, sun-loving perennial flower that puts out spiky violet-blue flowers for most of the summer. Attracts butterflies and bees.
# Size: Even with the flower spikes, it’s only about a foot tall. Spreads about 2 feet.
THERE’S AN AREA OF our garden that has a bit of a blooming lull after the flush of spring bulbs is past.
Despite that, it’s never a dull, drab spot of “only” green, because we have it planted with a number of shrubs. Some of these are flowering shrubs, spireas and hydrangeas that will add a [...]
Of the bumalda spireas,
* ‘Anthony Waterer’ is the best known variety. It grows to a height of only 3 feet and has reddish-pink flowers held in little umbrellas on the tips of the branches. The foliage is maroon-tinged.
* ‘Coccinea’ is like ‘Anthony Waterer’, [...]
Vanhoutte spirea (S. vanhouttei), the classic bridal wreath spirea, is a deciduous broadleaf shrub that can grow 6 to 10 feet high and spread as much as 20 feet wide. The small leaves are blue-green in summer with no fall color. Masses of small, white flower clusters cover the plant in the spring.
Japanese spirea (S. [...]
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