Double Play Red is a flower color breakthrough, with nearly-red flowers. Add in showy dark burgundy spring foliage and you've got the perfect double play! Top reasons to grow Double Play Red spirea: The closest to red of any spirea; Very showy burgundy-purple new growth; Naturally grows as a dense, rounded mound

Apr 25, 2022 · Large or small-sized, with pink, red, or white flowers, and sprawling branches or neat mounds, you’re sure to find a spirea – or several – on our list that’s just right for your garden! Here’s what we’re looking at up ahead: 1. Anthony Waterer.

A low maintenance, deciduous shrub that is sure to become a landscape favorite with its thrilling season of color, in both foliage and flower. The double play of color takes place as rich burgundy foliage emerges in spring, followed by a stunning explosion of crimson-red blooms.

A great shrub that offers two very distinct pops of color is the Double Play Red Spirea, a landscaping favorite that’s an excellent addition for nearly any design. Although “double play” refers to the shrub’s spring and summer hues, this plant will bring about butterflies and hummingbirds, lending itself as a true landscaping performer!

Jul 18, 2024 · Birchleaf spiraea (Spiraea betulifolia): While it has some summer interest in small white flowers, the real highlight is the show this shrub puts on during the fall with purple, orange, and red shades. Early Spiraea (Spiraea thunbergii): Blooming early in the spring, this species offers three-season interest giving the most spectacular fall ...

Oct 4, 2024 · In late spring/early summer, red-pink flowers pop against the green foliage. At 2-3’ tall and wide, it’s a great shrub for foundation plantings, borders, or mass plantings. This is one tough, hardworking shrub. Double Play® Red is cold hardy down to USDA zone 3 and heat tolerant to USDA zone 8.

These flowering shrubs’ delicate lacy flowers can be white, pink, red or mauve. Finely toothed foliage comes in shades of green, chartreuse, gold, blue, with some varieties putting on a showy fall display.

Double Play Red spirea's spring foliage emerges dark burgundy red, then matures to dark green. The early summer flowers are raspberry red.

Double Play® Red spirea (Spiraea japonica) brings a whole new flower color to your garden palette. Deep red-pink flowers have bushy centers with bright purple pollen. It’s an eye-popping, appealing look.

For purposes of choosing plants, full sun means 6+ hours of bright sun each day, part sun or part shade mean 4-6 hours of sun each day or high filtered light all day, and shade means fewer than four hours of sun. When a plant’s light needs indicate it can take full to part sun, in general, it’s better to opt for part sun in hot climates.