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Please would you kindly identify and advise?
Grateful Deadhead
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Dear Forum Members,
This is a lovely bush in our garden. Can anyone tell me what it is please?
It seems that the recent hot sun has burnt some of the flowers. Is this probable? It is such a shame because they had only very recently bloomed. Then that insanely hot day happened last Wednesday (situation = full sun) and some flower 'cones' are burnt/dried out.
Have I answered my own query with regards to what happened to it (i.e. it was the hot sun)? What should I do about the seemingly dead blooms? Chop 'em off, or leave until autumn?
Many thanks!
The Grateful Deadhead
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I think your analysis is spot-on. I would snip off the browned flowers as the bush may grow more to replace them.
Looks like a Spiraea, possibly S. douglasii. They do that, I'm afraid. I would remove the brown heads to keep the bush tidy.
Yes, these flowers last better when the weather is less extreme. Deadhead if you like or prune after flowering is finished. The bush can be invasive but it is tough as old boots, makes a good dense screen and is pretty in flower.
The fierce sun, I've had that happen to a false goats beard.
I just looked it up on RHS: "tolerant of all but the most extreme conditions". Well, I think that the weather last week was pretty extreme!
Thank you Bob, - I have begun dead-heading and I am quite cheered by the prospect that there might be further flowers.
Landgirl - Thanks for identifying for me!
Posy - yes I have found that it has a tendency to invasiveness and we love its screening qualities!
Thank you to all of you!
The Grateful Deadhead
Well done landgirl100, this is a Spiraea. Spiraea x billardii to be precise. It is a sterile hybrid so no viable seeds will be produced.