Daily details from the garden to bring you inspiration throughout the year
Spiraea japonica ‘Gold Mound’ being photobombed by another of its distant relatives from the rose family, the bramble
When I look after Spiraea japonica for other people, I tend to keep it fairly tightly clipped. Mostly grown for foliage rather than flowers it will happily take regular snipping, though if you want the blossom it’s best to ease off the pruning in summer, as it blooms on last year’s wood. It’s a comforting, reliable presence in the border, and many cultivars will provide a pleasing blob of lime-green fading to gold as the year progresses. In my own garden, ‘Gold Mound’ can be found lurking behind the pink shrub roses (appropriately enough, since they’re distantly related), and I’ve not yet taken the clippers to it, preferring for now to enjoy its naturally more open habit. Sometimes, the good stuff happens in the spaces in between.
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Hello! I’m Andrew, gardener, blogger, podcaster, and owner of a too-loud laugh, and I’m so pleased you’ve found your way to Gardens, weeds & words. You can read a more in-depth profile of me on the About page, or by clicking the image above.
