I also think it\`s spirea. A favorite of many gardeners, spiraea are deciduous shrubs that provide many seasons of care-free enjoyment in the landscape.
It’s comes up everywhere around where you plant it. My father has TONS of them. Don’t put them in your flower beds unless you don’t care about anything else doing well.
I think it’s called Spirea but here in East Tennessee we call it Candytuft. I have 4 bushes and I prune it just like a hedge after it blooms (it’s due for a trimming now). Mine are about 24 years old but I keep them about 4ft tall and 6 ft wide like a boxwood. Next year they’ll be covered in pink blooms and have pollinators galore. It’s a win win for those lilac colored small butterflies, I seem to get tons of those when it blooms.
We have these in the side of our house (in NY) they haven’t “taken over” anything. They bloom and look very pretty. I cut them back pretty good in the early spring bc they are close to a walkway and then after they flower I just trim and clean them up a little. They overwinter beautifully too with no fuss.
I realize things can vary from location to location and we are in NY with some pretty cold winters so not a year round growing season, but truly I have been gardening my whole life and the only things I have seen spread at an “uncontainable” rate were Virginia creeper, raspberry bushes, and the violets that have taken over my grass and my yard but I’ve let them bc of pollinators. Maybe lemon balm (mints in general) and oregano but both of those can be cut back fairy easily too.
Looks like a variety of spirea. Maybe goldmound.
Thank you so much.
Yep
I also think it\`s spirea. A favorite of many gardeners, spiraea are deciduous shrubs that provide many seasons of care-free enjoyment in the landscape.
I read this as delicious shrubs. Made me rethink life for a moment.
Yep, spirea. Cannot be killed. If any of its branches touch the ground, it will root.
it really depends on where you live. in a summer dry climate it will die without irrigation (another good argument to go native, though).
That thing spreads like wildfire.
And its invasive?
It’s comes up everywhere around where you plant it. My father has TONS of them. Don’t put them in your flower beds unless you don’t care about anything else doing well.
I think it’s called Spirea but here in East Tennessee we call it Candytuft. I have 4 bushes and I prune it just like a hedge after it blooms (it’s due for a trimming now). Mine are about 24 years old but I keep them about 4ft tall and 6 ft wide like a boxwood. Next year they’ll be covered in pink blooms and have pollinators galore. It’s a win win for those lilac colored small butterflies, I seem to get tons of those when it blooms.
Further north candy tuft is what we calm Iberis
Candytuft is also a small white flowering perennial. One of my favorites.
Oh wow! I just googled it… that’s beautiful! I like THAT candytuft better than our candytuft. Lol. And it comes in pinks, too!
Yes! I usually don’t like white flowers but I adore candytuft. It only flowers from late spring to early summer though.
I have one of these out front. I watered it today.
We have these in the side of our house (in NY) they haven’t “taken over” anything. They bloom and look very pretty. I cut them back pretty good in the early spring bc they are close to a walkway and then after they flower I just trim and clean them up a little. They overwinter beautifully too with no fuss.
Exactly. I enjoy this sun but are people a lot of who love to label everything as a superspreader invasive plant, when it isn’t.
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I realize things can vary from location to location and we are in NY with some pretty cold winters so not a year round growing season, but truly I have been gardening my whole life and the only things I have seen spread at an “uncontainable” rate were Virginia creeper, raspberry bushes, and the violets that have taken over my grass and my yard but I’ve let them bc of pollinators. Maybe lemon balm (mints in general) and oregano but both of those can be cut back fairy easily too.
Stick that thing in the ground. It's very attractive and bees love it.
Generalist bees and invasive European honeybees love it but it’s useless for all other native insects
Mine are full of mosquitoes.
Froebeli spirea me thinks
They are pretty and get big. We have a few.
Praying mantis absolutely love spirea!
Spirea.
Invasive trash