Steeplebush (Spirea Tomentosa) – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3a-8b  Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Perennial Shrub

Flower Color:  Pink

Flower Size: 8-10″ long clusters

Flowering Period:  Mid Summer to Early Fall

Flower Type:  Florets in spiked clusters

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Green turning Bright Reddish-Gold in Fall

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  No

Berry Color:  No

Attracts:  Visual Attention, Butterflies, Beneficial Pollinators

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Wet Soil, Insect, Rabbit

Steeplebush, Spirea tomentosa, is an easy-to-grow and very pretty but uncommon North American flowering perennial shrub native to wetland areas, which makes it a perfect choice for filling those low-lying areas in the landscape or garden where the soil tends to stay moist to wet. It is admired and enjoyed by gardeners and butterflies and other beneficial pollinators for its showy 8-inch steeple-shaped spires of spirea-like soft and fuzzy looking pink to rose-purple flowers that appear from mid summer into fall. The flower spires form atop upright, slender, wand-like copper-color stems clothed in attractive green leaves that turn to a bright reddish-gold in fall. Excellent for garden beds and large container gardens.

Growing 3 to 4 feet tall and 2 feet wide, the Steeplebush is ideal for use in sunny wet meadows, marshes, fields, lake margins, ditches and other areas where the soil stays consistently moist to wet. In these condition it will spread to form a colony, which considering it’s attractiveness makes it a really good asset in the landscape or gardens where many other plants might drown. Also does very well in large container gardens such as whiskey barrels. A fine addition to bog and wetland gardens, rain gardens, butterfly and beneficial pollinator gardens and pink theme gardens.

Suggested Spacing:  2 to 3 feet apart for mass plantings

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