I was trimming and cleaning up around a spirea shrub that I have in the back yard, and a piece of it rooted. I do not need this rooted piece, and I am hoping that someone else can use it.

The shrub gets to be a few feet tall, somewhere around 3-4 feet, I think. I had this one trimmed to about 3 feet, although a previous one I had got taller. The leaves are pale green now, and get a little darker during the summer. They have a little red in them. The flowers are small pink clusters that come out in the spring but seem to continue into the summer. In the fall the leaves turn a darkish red. It roots pretty easily by letting a branch rest on the ground.

I have it sitting in a dish of water on my front steps. You can see the shrub growing in my front yard when you pick up the cutting. There are actually 3 shrubs there: two are smaller ones that have rooted from branches, and the original one which needs to be cut back. So I may be digging up another one or two in the near future.

Bob

931 Mellon Street (between Wellesley and Jackson)