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white flowering shrub IDd by John and Oron as Spiraea arguta

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Hilary

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white flowering shrub IDd by John and Oron as Spiraea arguta
« on: September 13, 2011, 08:36:10 AM »
We saw this low spreading shrub in the gardens at Aranjuez, south of Madrid.
It looks  like too many shrubs for me to identify.
Any Ideas?
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John

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Re: white flowering shrub
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2011, 12:34:09 PM »
Looks like a Spiraea to me. Possibly S. arguta.
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Alisdair

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Re: white flowering shrub
« Reply #2 on: September 23, 2011, 05:24:24 PM »
Or x vanhouttei??
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Gardens in SE England (Sussex); also coastal Southern Greece, and (in a very small way) South West France; MGS member (and former president); vice chairman RHS Lily Group, past chairman Cyclamen Society
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Re: white flowering shrub
« Reply #3 on: September 23, 2011, 09:21:29 PM »
S. x vanhouttei has different leaves: widwer, shorter, dark green and much serrated.
I would echo John by saying  arguta.
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Alisdair

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Re: white flowering shrub
« Reply #4 on: September 24, 2011, 07:57:35 AM »
OK, arguta, agreed: I rather prefer the flowering habit of this form to the very long flowering branchlets of the much commoner Bridal Wreath types.
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Alisdair Aird
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