Ours is old can I cut it down to the ground late winter next year? Will i kill it or will it come back with new growth?
Last spring I found this growing on the side of the highway… in the edge of the woods… not near any home.
Have any of you tried transplanting it ?
When we get our new home built… I would like to have some of that in the landscape.
TNHunter
Could probably root a cutting easily enough I bet.
That’s pretty! And early flowering, I bet my bees would love that!
Propagation methods
Softwood Cuttings - best taken during the active growing season, typically May to July, for the highest success rate.
Root Division - separating sections of the plant with healthy shoots. best done in early spring with a spade.
Layering - bending a branch and pining underground to encourage root growth before separation.
Hardwood Cuttings best taken in the fall to root.
Think I will try dividing the roots… it is growing in a clump… several stems coming up from a 3 ft circle.
I will wait until late winter after we get our new home built.
It blooms with my EU plum and early apple.
A little later than my Jplums.
Thanks
Do you have a specific goal in mind? If you are fine with the size and just want to remove deadwood then trimming that out during the growing season when the rest is full of leaves would make the most sense. I would not suggest ever cutting the whole bush low to the ground.
Before I had the wealth of Internet information available to me I tried a revitalization pruning of the bridal wreath spirea at the house that my wife and I owned at the time. That was the wrong action for what I was actually trying to achieve.
I have lately discovered a new, highly informative website. I have been hating all of the (seemingly) AI generated plant information when I’ve been searching for something like, say, wintersweet. The North Carolina State Extension has been hitting it out of the park with great pages like this one:
https://plants.ces.ncsu.edu/plants/spiraea-prunifolia/
There they suggest that seed or stem cuttings are the recommended propagation strategy, but @TNHunter,
I really think that your idea has merit with a plant of this sort. I would love to hear how a dormant season division and replant does for you.
I love driving down the roads in this area and seeing spirea just doing its thing and would love to add it to my present property.
Might want to see about containg it also, we do by mower ours spreads like crazy.
I’ve transplanted a couple bridal wreath (I no longer own them, they went to someone else’s yard. I don’t have enough space in mine for shrubs that only flower for a few weeks a year, wish I did).
After flowering, I cut them down close to the ground, and then me and the other guy dug them up and dragged them off to their new hole. Was a PITA since they were so big, but not as bad as the lilac 
It’s been two years and he tells me they survived and has promised me a photo this summer. Probably would have been better to do it while they were fully dormant but I didn’t have the time.
I’m not sure if I could have divided the roots on mine. They were really old and woody and didn’t have any offshoots, it would have been very difficult to cut. Yours might be better suited (are you sure they are bridal wreath by the way? Mine had dark brown bark.)
