| For me, the best of all worlds are spirea, smallish, easily maintained plants that grow anywhere, with pretty pink or white spring and summer flowers. |
| The hardy ornamental shrubs, honeysuckle, lilac, mock-orange and spirea Van Houttii can be grown here. |
| Gambel oak, rock spirea, and waxflower are typical understory shrubs and slender wheatgrass, Canada bluegrass, and Parry oatgrass are common grasses in the MC zone. |
| Spring-flowering shrubs include such popular plants as forsythia, deutzia, lilac, viburnum, mock-orange and spirea. |
| Just at dawn, in a dew-drenched thicket of spirea, I found three nests not six feet apart. |
| Take hardwood cuttings from shrubs including buddleia, forsythia, spirea, weigela, berberis, hydrangea, pyracantha and roses. |
