Double Play^® Candy Corn^® Spirea Spiraea japonica

I ordered this plant online a couple of years ago. I didn’t realize that being in zone 9b was beyond the recommended area for this plant. It has done extremely well after I moved it to an area that gets afternoon shade. LOVE the color of the foliage and the flowers. My question is about the scrubby tiny branches that develop at the base of the plant. I won’t prune now in December but is it recommended to prune out the scrubby little branches primarily at the base of the plant after it flowers in the spring? Is it better to just leave main branches? I wish Proven Winners would write more detailed instructions for caring for (fertilizing and pruning) our plants after we’ve purchased them.

Love love these shrubs! “Everything and the kitchen sink!” I bought 45 of these plants. Love the fact it’s all that and a bang of color. From the growth of being yellow, new growth being burgundy red and it flowers! OMG! And it’s is a “dwarf” size to accommodate most landscapes. People are literally driving by my property amazed at the POP of color because of these plants! Highly recommend. Also, some comments were about the color…if you are planting in a shade, yes it will be lime green, but if planted in sun (as recommended) they are beautiful in gold/yellow and red colors.

Candy Corn is a real show stopper! Foliage is fabulous nearly all year long and flowers are just icing on the cake! People walking my neighborhood stop and stare! Four season interest great smallish shrub!

I started growing this plant in a container on my building steps in 2020. I live in a city and have no access to a regular garden, so I started a "container garden," on the steps of my two-family building. I have been doing this for many years and every year I take a chance and buy a few "experiments." I always have to be aware of how large the plant will get because we have to walk up and down those same stairs! This is my favorite of all my plants (uh oh, don't tell the other 20!). It gives me utter delight just to look at it. It looks exactly like the photos. It grows easily without aggravation. All my stairway plants have to grow in burning hot direct SW sun, because that's the exposure I have. Spiraea, at least this variety, has done spectacularly.

In my zone 7b garden in central Maryland, we planted this beautiful Candy Corn spirea shrub next to the front door. It glows most of the year. There is no way to overlook it. We love it. We're trying to find places to plant more. It performs exactly as described for us.