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Welcome to our plant search tool. This database contains many of the thousands of plants that we carry. There are some notable exceptions. Hundreds of new perennials come out every year and Make It Green has been a leader in making them available to you. Eventually the recent introductions will make it to our plant search tool but every year there will be a lag between our in-store plant selection and this search tool. Unfortunately this search tool can't cover everything that we will carry this year. We also carry over 100 varieties of rare and unusual evergreens and over 100 varieties of hard-to-find shrubs many of which are not in the plant search. Click on the Plant List button for a list of nearly all the woody plants (trees, shrubs and evergreens) that we have ordered or already have in stock for this coming year.
Mellow Yellow Spirea*
Spiraea thunbergii 'Mellow Yellow'
* This is a "special order" plant - contact store for details
Height: 4 feet
Spread: 4 feet
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Hardiness Zone: 4a
Description:
A wonderful garden shrub with thin, loose branches covered in white flowers in spring; attractive lemon-yellow foliage all season long, very fine textured and refined, forms a compact rounded ball; a great color accent for the shrub border
Ornamental Features
Mellow Yellow Spirea is bathed in stunning clusters of white flowers along the branches in early spring before the leaves. It has attractive chartreuse deciduous foliage which emerges yellow in spring. The tiny grassy leaves are highly ornamental and turn an outstanding orange in the fall.
Landscape Attributes
Mellow Yellow Spirea is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a shapely form and gracefully arching branches. It lends an extremely fine and delicate texture to the landscape composition which can make it a great accent feature on this basis alone.
This is a high maintenance shrub that will require regular care and upkeep, and should only be pruned after flowering to avoid removing any of the current season's flowers. It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. It has no significant negative characteristics.
Mellow Yellow Spirea is recommended for the following landscape applications;
- Accent
- Mass Planting
- General Garden Use
Planting & Growing
Mellow Yellow Spirea will grow to be about 4 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 4 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions, and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.
* This is a "special order" plant - contact store for details
