Double Play Big Bang Spirea
Spiraea 'Tracy'
Proven Winners
Double Play Series
$60.00
This variety features orange-red emerging foliage that transitions to deep yellow; clusters of pink and hot pink blooms in spring and summer; a fantastic garden focal point for the spring and summer
Features and Growing Tips
Note: Each live plant is unique and may differ from the photo while maintaining its beauty. Plants come in a plastic pot; other items in images are not included.
Landscape Qualities
Double Play Big Bang Spirea is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.
Ornamental Qualities
Double Play Big Bang Spirea features showy clusters of shell pink flowers with hot pink eyes at the ends of the branches from mid spring to mid summer. It has yellow deciduous foliage which emerges red in spring. The serrated pointy leaves turn an outstanding brick red in the fall.
Planting and Growing
Double Play Big Bang Spirea will grow to be about 3 feet tall at maturity | with a spread of 3 feet. It tends to fill out right to the ground and therefore doesn't necessarily require facer plants in front. It grows at a fast rate | and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for approximately 20 years.
This shrub should only be grown in full sunlight. It prefers to grow in average to moist conditions | and shouldn't be allowed to dry out. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This particular variety is an interspecific hybrid.
Plant Facts
Prefers full sun
Deer Resistant
Keep moisture level average to moist
Mature Size 3'Hx3'W
Flowers are shell pink
Flowers from mid spring to mid summer
Attracts butterflies
Fall color brick red
Zone 4a
Likes average to moist soil