Spire gray. Planting and caring for plants.

Spirea Gray Grefsheim is a shrub that is able to decorate your garden and at the same time does not need special care. Gray spiraea is perfect for people who want to put their suburban plot in order, but do not have enough time to care for complex plants. This plant, despite its unpretentiousness, looks very impressive and blooms all the time, it is these qualities that allowed spiraeus to occupy its place of honor among the gardener's favorites all over the world.

The plant reaches one and a half meters in height, but if you manage to create ideal conditions, gray spiraea can easily grow up to two meters. The crone is sprawling and massive, spherical in shape, and the red-brown branches are abundantly decorated with green leaves 2-4 centimeters long.

Spirea begins to bloom from the second year, from May to June, depending on climatic conditions. The flowering period lasts a month and a half, sometimes longer. During flowering spiraea gray is especially beautiful. A massive bush, densely covered with small (up to one centimeter) white flowers, will not leave indifferent any person who will come to your garden to admire this beauty. By the way, spiraea is also an excellent honey which will definitely attract bees to the garden, I think it's not worth talking about what "bonuses" you get if your garden is actively pollinated.

Also gray spiraea grows very quickly, it is remarkably shorn and dense enough, such qualities make this unpretentious plant also ideal for forming the so-called "green" fence, with which you can protect your garden or divide it into plots, and protect from Excess light and dust.

Like most massive shrubs with small leaves and abundant flowering, spirea is a light-loving plant, but at the same time it tolerates a partial penumbra. It is also worthwhile to monitor the condition of the soil and not to allow it to dry up completely, for this especially during the hot summer months it is enough to water at least a couple of times a week. This plant is especially sensitive to a sudden change in air temperature, but this is rare, and we can not do anything about it.

Gray spiraea perfectly tolerates winter frosts without additional help, however, in severe colds young shoots can still freeze, cases when spiraea do not survive the winter are extremely rare, and mostly occur when the plant enters the winter already sick.

A very interesting effect can be achieved if correctly combine different varieties of spirits in their garden. For example, varieties that blossom in the spring, that is, red spiraling, Vangutta, trilobate, argenta, Nippon or oak forest, can be planted along with such varieties as spirea average: Douglas, Billard, flowering in summer. In such a simple way, you can achieve active flowering from early spring to the onset of the first frosts.

It would seem that this plant already has all the properties so that it can rightly be called the favorites of all gardeners, but that's not all. One of the advantages is also the fact that spiraea is very easy to plant on site, it does not take much time and some special knowledge. Saplings of spiraea can be planted either in autumn, when all the leaves fall off, or in the spring, before the buds dissolve. But it is preferable to plant in autumn, otherwise the plant can survive a great deal of stress if it dissolves right after landing. Reproduction by cuttings is the simplest and most convenient, and at times even the only way with which you can easily breed spiraea on your site. For this, the cuttings are planted in a separate container or directly into the ground (in this case, the distance between the bushes should be at least 35 centimeters, also do not forget to dilute the heavy soils with sand, this guarantees better germination of plants).

As a result, it can be said that gray spiraea is exactly that plant which, with a minimum of care, can provide an excellent appearance to your garden, and if you apply enough effort, you can really create a real masterpiece.