Spirea, Splendid
No photograph can do justice to the enormous masses of spirea blooming in my garden. When there's a breeze blowing it's like being next to a wave about to crash--all that white tossing about.
The front spirea hedge (and now the back, though it's only in its second year) is the best gardening decision I ever made.
And somehow I just noticed this year that the masses and masses of late-blooming narcissi (which are also snow white!) peak at the same time, in the same garden.
I have no memory of planting them. Gardening is mysterious.
10 comments:
Absolutely beautiful! Christina
Beautiful! Nature is about a month late this year where I live. We're just beginning daffodils, tulips and hyacinths and trees are only just this week starting to bud. What a wonderful time of year!
I remember when you planted it!
So beautiful!
It is very very beautiful!
Lisateresa
How lovely! We once rented a house in the country for a few years; there was a massive wall of several spirea bushes along the back of the house. It was magnificent in bloom, abuzz with happy bees. Our chickens loved to nest and dust bathe underneath it in the summer...nice and shady.
I love Spirea! There is a lot of pink spirea the previous owners planted in my yard, and it is prodigious. Love your narcissi too.
Oh, pretty! How many did you plant to get a hedge? I think my yard needs a hedge of spirea too!
Love all your white blooms--heavenly!
My big hedge has five bushes in it--I planned on them maturing to about six feet of width. They're even bigger.
thanks for posting this. When I was a little girl, I used to help out my elderly neighbor and she had some of these in her yard. i never knew the name of them but I loved them. Now I know what to look for at the garden center!
What a great memory....
-Eriko
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