Examples
“Mix in old-fashioned favorites such as spiraea and hydrangea to create an enviable cottage garden.”
“Many of these plants are repeated in her own yard such as coral bells (heuchera), Thunberg spiraea (Spirea thunbergii 'Ogon') and "Knock Out" roses.”
The Wall Street Journal: Gardening's Final Frontier: the 'Hellstrip'
“All the front rooms and dining rooms have been knocked into one through-room and the garden revealed has gum trees and spiraea and fremontodendrons—for this is twenty-first-century Britain where everyone has luxury and no one has any money.”
“That leaves the spiraea and hellebores at the edges and top and the stipa and heuchera at the corner.”
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“There are daffodil, grape hyacinth and lily bulbs in there to start the show in early spring, magic carpet spiraea for three seasons of colorful foliage, hellebores, tall garden phlox and the sedums.”
“It was a very small specimen when planted, that actually may have helped protect it, and the heaths and spiraea surrouding the trunk too.”
“The weigela, forsythia, and spiraea are also excellent shrubs.”
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“The rosy spiraea, the mountain ash, and the wild currant, are three common shrubs in this area.”
“Through the rusty screen of the back parlor window one viewed the spiraea, still in need of spraying.”
“When they came out on the road I was standing in a bed of violets in a tangled corner of the garden, where roses climbed to kiss the lilacs, and spiraea stooped to rest upon the wallflowers, and where two tall kurrajongs stood like sentries over all.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘spiraea’.
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looked up
Words I've come across while reading and looked up in the dictionary.
deesis, pendentive, revetment, aedicule, stemma, patera, ephod, entrepot, corbel, exedra, volute, archivolt and 1406 more...
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Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
discovered while reading this book.
tendril, spiraea, political asylum, bristly, sordid, reel, garish, dulcitude, gait, charlatan, lapel, august and 96 more...
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Words that make you go hmmmm...
Interesting words you probably won't hear in your day-to-day.
maxwell, mooncalf, quagga, glaikit, musquash, lingam, haruspex, qindarka, chthonic, ipomoea, azimuthal, valuta and 304 more...
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knitandpurl "When spring came, Lewis was surprised to see that the hedge in front of the Hanchett house was wildly overgrown. It was a spiraea hedge, and had always had bristly little pink-and-white blossoms. This spring there were no blossoms on the hedge; it had turned into a dark, thorny thicket that completely hid the first floor windows and sent long waving tendrils up to scrape at the zinc gutter troughs. Burdocks and ailanthus trees had grown up overnight near the house; their branches screened the second-story windows."
The House with a Clock in Its Walls, by John Bellairs, p 122 of the Puffin Books paperback edition Mar 2, 2010
knitandpurl also, meadowsweet Mar 2, 2010