Planted 2 nice, full birchleaf spirea a couple months ago, and they never really seem to have done very well. The soil was high grade from a highly respected garden center, added on top of already high quality black top soil. Everything else in the beds has done really well but the birchleaf doped leaved right away, later started some sparse new growth, but hasn't done anything else since. Can anyone tell from the photos what is happening here? Is this common for birchleaf when first planted (shock?) or is there something I need to do to help the plants recover? I was hoping to transplant them this fall to better fit them into the landscape design (which we had done after the birchleaf spirea were already planted for a good month or more), but I don't want to kill them....what should I do? Thanks in advance for your help.
