It is very un-common to find the “common” green-leafed ninebark. I lived for years in a place where they grew in the wild and I have to say I find them one of the prettiest native flowering plants we have. The flower clumps are beautiful in spring, white with pink anthers, the leaves are a spritely green with a beautiful design, that color very late in fall with colors that are variable terrific shades of reds, salmons, yellows and additionally have large clumps of seedpods that are of similar colors. I have some planted and this fall the leaves stayed in fall color and and never fell off. (zone 6b) They are tall and their root systems are I think I remember, about 10″ deep and will hold back the edge of any water body. I am going to be ordering more to hold back my eroding creek sides. Cold Stream needs to redo their photos, though, because the ones they have on this website do not even come close to doing justice to these beautiful bushes. In fact if I hadn’t known about them before I wouldn’t have given this plant a second look after seeing the photos.
