Double Play® Candy Corn Spirea

The Double Play® Candy Corn® Spirea is a new colorful replacement for the old Goldflame spirea, which is much more colorful and exciting. The new leaves are orange red, and they continue like that all summer. As the leaves mature they turn pineapple yellow, and then chartreuse green. Flower clusters are produced all summer, in a rich purple-pink. Fall colors are spectacular, from yellow and orange to red and purple. All this on a compact 2-foot bush that is incredibly tough and reliable. Grow it wherever you need color, in beds, as edging, as a low hedge, or in pots. You can never have too much of this great plant in your garden.

• New growth is orange-red
• Leaves mature to gold and chartreuse
• Fall colors or red, yellow, orange and purple
• Flowers all summer in purple-pink
• Sterile and completely non-invasive

The Double Play® Candy Corn® Spirea will be at its colorful best in full sun, but it also grows in some partial shade. It thrives in poor soil, and in all conditions, including urban gardens, as long as the soil is not constantly wet. Established plants are drought resistant and normally free of pests or diseases. This plant has been bred to be sterile, so it does not seed and it can never become invasive.