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The ornamental shrub "Spirea" is loved by gardeners for the variety of sizes and shapes of bushes, for long flowering from spring to late autumn with the correct selection of different plant varieties, for the richness of inflorescence forms and their color. Spirea is an excellent honey plant and a healer, containing in various parts of the plant a number of substances useful for the human body. Spirea roots have a soil-strengthening ability
Habit
The root system of the plant is not deep and belongs to a species called "fibrous". Such roots are possessed, for example, by plantain, creeping clover, coconut tree. They do not have a main root, but they have a powerful network of adventitious roots that tenaciously cling to the soil and help it maintain integrity. Thanks to such roots, the spirea is planted on loose slopes to strengthen them.
The stems of all spirea species are graceful and tend to bend beautifully. It was for them that the spirea got its name, which is translated as: bend, spiral, wreath. The color of young shoots is yellowish, light green, reddish, brown. The stem can be pubescent or bare.
Spirea inflorescences are amazing, taking different shapes and colors depending on the time of their flowering. White corymbose racemes or sessile umbrellas adorn the spring spirea. Shoots of the current year are covered in summer with simple or complex shields from white to pink-red. Autumn dresses the bushes in shades of purple (with rare exceptions), releasing narrowly cylindrical or wide pyramidal panicles on the leafy, long shoots of the current year.
Types of spirea by flowering time
In order for the spirea to delight you throughout the summer season, you need to plant bushes of different varieties, blooming at different times.
From mid-May to mid-June, spireas bloom, buds on which are laid on the shoots of last year: alpine; Wangutta; crenate; oak-leaved; Hypericum; medium; pubescent; sharp-toothed; slimy.
From June to October, the garden is decorated with spireas, the inflorescences of which are completed by the young shoots of the current year: white; birch-leaved; Boomald; Billiserda; willow; broadleaf; Menziez; Douglas; Japanese.
Growing conditions
Spireas can grow in partial shade, but bloom more abundantly in the open sun and light space.
Many spirea varieties tolerate drought easily. Resist frost.
Soils like fertile, fertilized with organic matter. On them, they begin to bloom earlier and more abundantly.
Propagated by spirea by seeds (it is desirable that the seeds are fresh, they have the best germination); green cuttings (early July); dividing the bush; undergrowth.
Pruning
An important procedure for caring for bushes is their correct and timely pruning. When pruning, it is necessary to take into account the property of the plant to release inflorescences on shoots of different ages: some place their inflorescences on overwintered shoots of last year, others on young shoots of the current season.
The first group includes spireas that bloom in spring and early summer. In order for the shoots to form new flower buds, they must be cut as soon as they bloom, that is, in the summer.
Spireas blooming in autumn should be pruned in early spring.
Usage
Spirea bushes, growing up to two meters in height, are suitable for a beautiful hedge between separate parts of the summer cottage; for decorating nondescript buildings of a utility yard, a compost heap; for the device of high curbs.
A separate growing bush will defuse the monotony of the green lawn. For this, such types of spirea are suitable as sharp-toothed, Douglas, white, Wangutta, medium. The beautiful shape of a tall bush with arched shoots will add originality to this corner of your garden.
Dwarf spirea is planted as a ground cover plant; they decorate the alpine slides.
Inflorescences are used for cutting, making bouquets from one spirea, and complementing bouquets from other flowers.
Healing properties
For medicinal purposes, the roots, stems and leaves of willow spirea are used. Its antimicrobial and antifungal properties help fight diarrhea, intestinal dysbiosis and skin fungal diseases.
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