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Virginia Sweetspire - How Wide Do Yours Grow
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Posted by summerstar Z7VA (My Page) on Sat, Mar 31, 07 at 17:25
| Does anyone out there have some older Virginia Sweetspire? Can you tell me how wide one of your plants is? I've read that they "freely colonize", but I don't want them to take over a huge area.
Michael Dirr says one VA Sweetspire will spread to six feet, but what's your experience? |
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RE: Virginia Sweetspire - How Wide Do Yours Grow
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| Me again...We have sweetspire (itea) cultivar 'Little Henry', some from Musser, some from Lowes. The oldest are 4-5 years, about 3' x 3'. They do sucker, and also will self-layer, but I don't think their behavior is invasive. I WANT mine to increase, because I need to cover another area. They are also pretty easy to start from cuttings. |
RE: Virginia Sweetspire - How Wide Do Yours Grow
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| I have Little Henry and it has not moved much but where I work there are larger plants, I believe they are the species and they have moved quite a bit. In fact the gardeners removed the mulch and you can see the suckers spreading out and then rising up. They will be very bushy, maybe 5-6 feet wide in a few years. |
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