A top choice for low maintenance and striking good looks

Bring brilliant color to your sunny spots with Candy Corn Spirea. In spring its foliage emerges candy apple red. Candy Corn Spirea’s fascinating leaves brighten to pineapple yellow with pumpkin orange tips. Dark purple blooms appear in late spring into early summer, making an eye-popping display. The fantastic color stays all season as the plant continually brings bright orange new growth on top of the yellow foliage. Only growing 18-24″ tall and 30″ wide makes Candy Corn Spirea a top choice for smaller areas and low growing hedges. Candy Corn Spirea maintains its compact mounded shape with little pruning. Deer resistant.

Tired of planting annuals year after year, replace those plants with Candy Corn Spirea. It puts on a spectacular display as a single, specimen plant alone in flower beds and containers. Returning year after year with its brilliant all-season color makes Candy Corn Spirea ideal to replace annuals in mass, large beds, or anywhere you want the color of annuals but don’t want to replant every spring.

Candy Corn Spirea is a member of the outstanding Double Play series of shrubs, a group of colorful, long-blooming selections that are carefree and easy to grow. The Double Play Series extends these phenomenal shrubs’ color beyond just flowering. They bring a double play of colorful vibrant flowers and absolutely stunning foliage.

Spirea are compact deciduous shrubs that lose their leaves in winter. Spirea are heavy bloomers. They are tough, dependable plants that are tolerant of drought and different soil conditions, as long as it drains well. Spirea require very little maintenance.

Plant in full sun in well-draining soil. Avoid areas with standing water. Although it tolerate dry conditions, give Candy Corn Spirea deep soakings during dry spells. They benefit from a time-release fertilizer in spring.