It is a good choice for attracting butterflies to your yard, but is not particularly attractive to deer who tend to leave it alone in favor of tastier treats. This is a relatively low maintenance shrub, and is best pruned in late winter once the threat of extreme cold has passed. Its relatively fine texture sets it apart from other landscape plants with less refined foliage.
Tor Birchleaf Spirea is a dense multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. The fruit is not ornamentally significant. The tiny oval leaves turn an outstanding red in the fall. It has grayish green foliage throughout the season. Tor Birchleaf Spirea features dainty clusters of white flowers at the ends of the branches from late spring to early summer. The Chicago Botanic Garden's collection includes nearly 100 varieties and 3,000 plants.An elegant and versatile garden shrub with tiny white flowers appearing atop a compact, rounded gray-green form fall color is a showy mix of red, yellow and copper dwarf habit for use in smaller gardens and rock gardens, very low maintenance Spireas are best used in groupings in a shrub or mixed border, where they are valued as tough, reliable and easy-care performers in northern climates. While individual flowers are quite small, they occur in clusters of inflorescence that can be very showy. Spring to early summer abundant blooms tend to be in white or pink tones, depending on the species and/or cultivar. The small simple leaves are generally lance-shaped and held close to the branch. The genus Spiraea consists of small to medium sized flowering shrubs with a fine-textured twiggy mounding habit. More than 100 of these spirea are in the collection of the Chicago Botanic Garden. Birchleaf spirea is named for the shape of its leaves, which resemble those of the birch genus.
The foliage turns shades of orange, red, and purple in the fall. Tiny white flowers that are attractive to butterflies grow in small, flattened clusters in late spring on new wood.
Tor birchleaf spirea typically grows into a dense, compact, rounded mound (3’ X 3’).
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