Anthony Waterer Spirea

If you crave color, look no further. The painterly tones of Anthony Waterer Spirea (Spiraea x bumalda 'Anthony Waterer') develop flowers that start out with an intense shade of carmine red. As the blooms age, they mellow into a deep rose pink to reddish-purple.

Even the foliage displays incredible variation as it matures. There will always be something interesting happening on this dwarf shrub.

Watch for butterflies! They adore these flat-topped blooms and no wonder. The flowers make an easy landing pad for them to grab a nectar snack.

The pretty blooms go on and on, all season long. Encourage them to develop faster for you by taking a few seconds to snip away the old blooms. Get yourself a special pair of garden pruning snips, and call it me-time. How nice to enjoy a bit of time outside, enjoying your plants.

Be sure to include the pink flowers indoors, too. They make extraordinary cut flower arrangements!

The lovely flower display is a striking contrast against the beautiful foliage. Fresh new growth emerges in very dark red. Enjoy the foliage color of spring maturing to blue-green for summer. During most years in some areas, the plants can develop a deep burgundy fall color.

This small plant adds a new dimension and color when planted in the foreground of shrub borders. Anthony Waterer Spirea keeps changing and evolving for you all season long.

You'll enjoy its exceptional ornamental features all through the growing season. It delivers color from spring through fall.

The dense, upright, mounded form works so well on small modern lots. It can even be grown in outdoor containers as a thriller on the balcony, porch, patio or deck.

Order from the expert growers at Nature Hills today. You'll receive an order confirmation via email, then another notification as your order ships. Watch your doorstep for your sturdy boxes filled with phenomenal, landscape designer-quality Anthony Waterer Spirea.

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How to Use Anthony Waterer Spirea in the Landscape

Use these wonderfully easy-care shrubs as a colorful border for your foundation plantings and mixed beds. These designer's secret plants effortlessly elevate the look of existing landscaping.

Include them throughout your landscape to tie the whole design together. They are so versatile and can be grown in full sun or partial shade.

They make a perfect facer plant in front of shrubs that stay bare at the base. You'll easily hide any unsightly, leggy look with a perfect punch of flower and foliage color.

Add them to cutting gardens for season-long filler and flowers. Enjoy the flower power of these small, mounded deciduous shrubs.

Low hedges help delineate garden areas. Create a solid hedge by planting 2 feet apart on center. You'll measure from the center of one to the center of the next.

Brighten up wide, open spaces with Anthony Waterer Spirea in an incredible mass planting. Use a staggered, zig-zagging planting pattern 2 feet apart on center. Mulch between plants and keep new mass plantings weeded until the plants grow together and touch.

These firewise shrubs are often listed for use in Defensible Space Zones around your home. Check with your state forestry agencies and local fire protection district to see if they'll work in your area as a firescaping plant.

Anthony Waterer Spirea produces early-season flowers, which play an important role in pollination. Plant these flower factories near your edible landscape, veggie garden, or backyard orchard to entice pollinators and control pests.

#ProPlantTips for Care

You'll get the best color with good sun exposure. Ensure they receive at least 4-6 hours of direct sunlight.

In warmer climates, they will appreciate a little shade in the afternoon. Northern gardeners in Zone 4 can plant in a full sun position.

This versatile shrub is quite hardy and is easily grown in average, medium moisture, well-drained soils, as long as they aren't saturated with long-standing water. If your planting site has a heavy soil type that retains water, simply create a raised bed for planting to improve your drainage.

Give plants and containers a moderate amount of water on a regular basis. This plant will benefit from a 3 to 4-inch layer of mulch to keep the root system cool and minimize surface moisture evaporation.

This plant requires little pruning to maintain its shape. Do one heavy prune in late winter to early spring. Cut your plants back by half to bring the plants down and make them uniform before the flushes of flowers begin. It blooms on new wood, so prune to encourage branching and flushes of new flowers.

Deadheading encourages new blooms sooner. After the first round of flowers, doing a light prune to snip off spent blooms will reward you with more blooms right up until fall.

Enjoy this tough little shrub that won't require much care. Anthony Waterer Spirea gives you a variable and lively dash of color spring through fall. Order now!

Frequently Asked Questions

How tall does Anthony Waterer Spirea get?

Anthony Waterer Spirea can reach a mature height of 2-3 feet tall and a mature width of 2-4 feet wide.

Does Anthony Waterer Spirea spread?

Like other Spirea japonica varieties, the Anthony Waterer Spirea does not spread by way of above or below-ground runners or roots and remains a tidy, compact, mounded shrub.

How do you care for Spirea Anthony Waterer?

Anthony Waterer Spirea is a very low-maintenance shrub that only needs occasional pruning after flowering and an annual application of a slow-release fertilizer geared for flowering bushes.

Where does Anthony Waterer Spirea grow?

Anthony Waterer Spirea grows well throughout USDA hardiness zones 4-8 in the full sun, partial shade and in any kind of well-drained soil.

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