Spiraea Pink-A-Licious®

Pink-A-Licious is an attractive, compact, and uniformly mounded shrub, growing slightly wider than tall. Densely branched and fine-textured. Plants that become irregular with age can be pruned in early spring to return them to vigor and uniformity. Unlike its white flowered mother, the Pink-a-licious™ spirea has abundant, purplish-pink, flat-topped clusters of flowers in June. This cultivar has a wonderful compact and densely branched habit. It grows to 2 feet tall and 3 feet wide in southern Wisconsin. The summer foliage is clean and an attractive dark green. Fall foliage color on this plant can be outstanding, a combination of the colors of a fruit salad—pineapple yellow, watermelon pink, honeydew chartreuse, and cantaloupe orange—all on the same plant at the same time. An attractive and durable, low-growing shrub that can be grown individually or massed in a mixed border, as a filler or masking plant in front of taller shrubs, on slopes, as a foundation shrub, and in any other sites needing a shrub of its size and adaptability. Site it where its attractive early summer flowers, good dark green summer foliage, and wild mélange of fall colors can all be appreciated.