Spiraea nipponica 'Snowmound'

Snowmound

• Position: full sun
• Soil: fertile, moist, well-drained soil
• Rate of Growth: average
• Flowering period: June and July
• Flowers: white
• Other features: rounded, dark green leaves
• Hardiness: fully hardy
  
  Abundant, arching sprays of bowl shaped, white flowers in mid summer and rounded, dark green leaves. This spreading, deciduous shrub makes an excellent, informal, flowering hedge for a sunny, well-drained site. It is particularly attractive to a wide range of insects so makes a welcome addition to the wildlife garden. This is a particularly vigorous variety, so for best results it should be pruned hard each year in early spring.
  
  
• Garden care: Immediately after flowering prune flowered shoots to strong buds. On mature specimens cut back a quarter and a fifth of the old shoots to the base.