My Spirea has begun to welcome spring with a cascade of flowers!

The Spirea decided it was spring here too.

I was greeted today with an explosion of white flowers. They resemble tiny roses, and smell good too! The reason they look like roses, is that Spirea Douglasii in a member of the Rosaceae family...so it is a rose! It is also called steeplebush.

Also this:

In a week, the whole bush will be covered with flowers, and life will be a little nicer!

When I was the kid we found that the spy Riya made the best Bose in arrows of any plant. The Bows were reliable, and the arrows we made we could straightened by hand; and they flew well...don't tell your kids, LOL!

In the past, it was used to make brooms too. They are Hardy bush I'm grow quite well in Oklahoma! They're also very pretty when they drop their flower petals, it looks like it snowed!

This is a great decorative shrub, and unless you know it's other herbal use; you won't get the full value, but it's still worthwhile!

Herbally speaking spirea is used to treat diarrhea, taken in an infusion or tea. I have not needed to try the tea, but I hear that it is mild tasting too. There are no known hazards to using Spirea, herbally speaking anyway, LOL!

So plant some, and no one else has tobknow that this pretty bush, is medicine, maybe a bow, and a broom in a pinch, LOL!