Deutzia

The deutzia appears in gardens that have been around for a hundred years or longer.

Old houses, some no longer occupied, have these beautiful flowering shrubs.


Many are twenty feet tall or more.  Mostly they were passed along from generation to generation or from neighbor to neighbor.



The white one, deutzia scabra, is more likely to be a passalong plant.

I found the pink one, deutzia gracilis, in a nursery. Last year we cut the pink one back drastically, but it is a very fast grower and is as tall as ever.