Description
Spiraea ‘Arguta’ (known colloquially as Bridal Wreath) is a lovely shrub that comes with masses of white flowers in mid-spring and an attractive, compact habit that gives it a place in a range of garden schemes throughout the year. The foliage emerges early in the year from arching stems – small grey-green leaves are among the earliest to appear in the garden, and by mid-spring it’s fully greened out. The arching stems are then absolutely smothered with small white flowers growing in clusters through much of April and often into May, providing a really striking accent in the spring garden and great company for spring bulbs and early flowering perennials. The flowers fade away neatly, leaving the grey-green foliage for the the rest of the year – but the small leaves and tidy habit make this a great plant for providing a backdrop to let later perennials and flowering shrubs really shine.
We’ll always find space for one in our gardens because it’s such a great ‘filling’ plant – and because it’s so early to leaf and so easy to grow and care for. We also grow one in a large container so it can be moved to a background spot once its flowering is over.
These established, garden-ready plants have been grown at our nursery in Cornwall and are provided in 2 litre containers. They will grow to an ultimate height of about 2 metres with a similar spread, given enough space and good soil.
Growing Advice
Dead easy to grow and care for, in our experience, it asks only for at least partial sun and well-drained soil, but otherwise is adaptable and reliable. You can tidy the flowers up once they are over but they also fade out quite gracefully. Like all early-flowering shrubs, if you want to tidy up the shape at all the best time to prune is once the flowering season is over, and stems are best taken out at the base to make way for new shoots.
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