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Plant Habit: Shrub
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Full Sun to Partial Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Soil pH Preferences: Neutral (6.6 – 7.3)
Plant Height: 4 to 5 feet, even to 6 feet
Plant Spread: 5 to 8 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Broadleaf
Flowers: Showy
Blooms on new wood
Flower Color: Pink
Bloom Size: 5"-6"
Flower Time: Summer
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Rabbit Resistant
Pollution
Drought tolerant
Propagation: Other methods: Cuttings: Stem
Pollinators: Various insects
Miscellaneous: Tolerates poor soil
Monoecious

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Common names
  • Japanese Spirea
  • Japanese Meadowsweet
  • Maybush

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Date: 2023-06-24
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Date: 2020-12-04
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Location: Malvern, Pennsylvania
Date: 2008-06-13
pink blooms and foliage
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-08-21
Spiraea japonica 'Anthony Waterer' 24w34 6yo Japanese Spirea E3 (
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-08-21
Spiraea japonica 'Anthony Waterer' 24w34 6yo Japanese Spirea E3 (
Location: Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Date: 2010-06-08
one shrub in bloom
Location: Clinton, Michigan 49236
Date: 2024-08-21
Spiraea japonica 'Anthony Waterer' 24w34 6yo Japanese Spirea E3 (

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Location: Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Date: 2010-11-09
row in autumn
Location: Twisp
Date: 2010-07-28
Location: Newtown Square, Pennsylvania
Date: 2008-11-11
group in autumn
Location: Shamong, NJ
Date: 2019-06-25
Location: Twisp
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Comments:
  • Posted by ILPARW (southeast Pennsylvania - Zone 6b) on Sep 12, 2018 3:02 PM concerning plant:
    'Anthony Waterer' is the old standard cultivar that is still the most commonly used selection. Most nursery catalogs list it under Spiraea x bumalda, which is a hybrid between the Pink Japanese Spirea (S. japonica) x the White Woodland Spirea (S. albiflora). Many botanists have recently combined S. albiflora into the S. japonica species. Therefore, AW can be listed in arboretums and botanic gardens as a S. japonica. This cultivar has larger flattish clusters about 4 to 6 inches across that are often bright pink, though I have ones with dull pink. It gets a really good red-orange fall color. There is a good number of different clones of this cultivar out there with varying degrees of pink flowers and with leaves being more roundish to more pointed. The ones in the Chicago area had duller pink flowers but more roundish leaves, while in southeast Pennsylvania I've seen brighter pink flowers and more narrow leaves like 'Froebel.'

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