Many parks or streetscapes plant this plant, which resembles dead branches in winter, but when spring comes, it will bloom densely and intensely, like flying white snow from winter to spring, recreating the snowy sky. This plant, we call it "snowspraying".
"Snowspray" begins to bloom in March, and the plants commonly known as "snowspray" include pearl spirea and single-petal plum-leaf meadowsweet, which look similar to the flowering period, and are deciduous shrubs of the genus Rosaceae. Snowspray is a woody plant, although not large, but small white flowers occupy every inch of space on its branches, blooming for months, and are a highlight of spring flowers.
The pearl spirea in "Snowflake" has a unique foliage viewing effect, its leaves are linear-lanceolate, slender as bird feathers, and will turn orange red in autumn, becoming part of the autumn landscape, very beautiful. Single-petaled plum leaf meadowsweet is very similar to pearl spiraea , but the leaves are slightly broader and have pubescent or villi. There is also a type of plum leaf snowflake, which is a variant of the single-petal plum leaf snowflake, whose flowers are double-petaled and have the shape of dimples on the face of beautiful women when they laugh, also known as laughing flowers or double-petaled snowflakes.
In recent years, the frequency of application of plum leaf snowspray snowflakes in gardens has gradually increased, bringing people a sensory experience different from the other two types of snowspray.
In addition to the garden landscape, pearl meadowsweet and single-petal plum leaf meadowsweet also often appear in the cut flower market, titled "snow willow" for sale, which is a name as clear as "snowspray snowflakes", snow refers to its flower color and flower volume, willow refers to its branch form, "snow willow" branches are slender, large flowers, is an excellent cut flower material, because the flowering period in spring and can be manually controlled to advance to the Spring Festival, and there is "dead branches blooming" this selling point (refers to the branch harvest is mostly in the state of fallen leaves, soaked in water and then pumped leaves to bloom), It is a very popular cut flower and New Year flower.
Editor: Song Ge