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Plant: Double Play® Blue Kazoo® Spirea
Spirea · Spiraea media 'SMSMBK'
Size: 2 gal
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More about this plant
Flowers, foliage, and easy care shrubs - Double Play® Blue Kazoo® spirea has it all! Your search for a colorful, versatile, easy to grow shrub for your landscape ends at Double Play Blue Kazoo spirea. Its cool blue foliage emerges in a range of shifting hues through the season: red, pink, purple, and green. In early summer, very large white flower clusters appear. Like other spirea, you can count on Double Play Blue Kazoo spirea to look great while needing minimal care, making it ideal among easy care shrubs. It grows well in lightly shaded conditions (four-six hours of sun or filtered light all day), and is generally unbothered by deer. Not fussy about soil or watering for these low maintenance shrubs.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 6 ft tall and 6 ft wide
- Blooms in spring, summer
- Hardy in USDA zones 4-8
- Deciduous foliage
Plant description
Flowers, foliage, and easy care shrubs - Double Play® Blue Kazoo® spirea has it all! Your search for a colorful, versatile, easy to grow shrub for your landscape ends at Double Play Blue Kazoo spirea. Its cool blue foliage emerges in a range of shifting hues through the season: red, pink, purple, and green. In early summer, very large white flower clusters appear. Like other spirea, you can count on Double Play Blue Kazoo spirea to look great while needing minimal care, making it ideal among easy care shrubs. It grows well in lightly shaded conditions (four-six hours of sun or filtered light all day), and is generally unbothered by deer. Not fussy about soil or watering for these low maintenance shrubs.
- Flowers
- Bright white, fluffy flower clusters in early summer, held just above and within the foliage.
- Foliage
- Spring foliage ranges from blue to purple to green with dusty red new growth, then the whole shrub turns red in fall.
- Pruning
- Not necessary for health; shape in early spring, with an optional light trim after the first flush of flowers to promote colorful new growth.
