Throughout the summer the plants shape can be maintained by cutting back overgrown spirea shoots or stems as well as any dead or diseased branches.
Cutting back magic carpet spirea.
Fall is the time for the most severe pruning of spirea.
After pruning give the plant a water fertilize it and renew the mulch.
Start at the tips of your spirea when pruning by trimming it back to the leaf bud on the top.
More drastically cutting back spirea should occur in the fall or in late winter to early spring.
In early spring before the leaf buds start to swell cut all of the stems down so they re 4 to 6 in.
Remove any dead branches and use this trimming to shape the shrub.
A fertilizer of blood fish and bone is a good value option though you can also purchase commercial fertilizers.
Start hardwood cuttings from a mature spirea when the plant is dormant in late winter or early spring.
Try to make the cuts within inch 6 mm of a leaf or bud.
Give your spirea some love after your prune it.
Maintain the good shape as you cut sections of the shrub be.
Cut back as much as one third of each stem s length if the plant appears unkempt or overgrown.
A slow release fertilizer is best.
You can use pruning shears and cut one at a time or hedge clippers and simply cut them all off at once it makes no difference.
Other common names japanese spirea magic carpet synonyms spiraea walbuma family rosaceae genus spiraea are deciduous shrubs sometimes suckering with simple leaves and short racemes panicles or corymbs of small 5 petalled white or pink flowers in spring or summer.
Flowers on new wood so prune in late winter to early spring if needed.
With sharp shears cut each stem back to about 8 inches 20 cm from the ground.
Spirea shrubs also require deadheading throughout the spring or summer to ensure a continuous show of blooms.
Cutting it way back will stimulate new growth in tighter clusters so that you can get a more rounded compact shrub shape.
You also check of damaged or dead leaves and stems and cut them off.
A hardwood cutting is a young branch that does not bend and has no active growth.
Propagate by softwood cuttings in summer or by division in autumn or spring.
After the last blooms expire shear off the tips of the stems just below the spent flowers.
To deadhead your magic carpet variety wait until the blooms begin to die back in.
