Add year-round beauty and vibrant color to your landscape with Spiraea thunbergii ‘Mellow Yellow’, also known as Willow Leaf Spirea. This hardy ornamental shrub features glowing golden foliage, delicate white spring blooms, and stunning seasonal color changes. In early spring, clusters of small white flowers bloom along the branches before bright golden-yellow willow-like leaves emerge. As the seasons progress, the foliage transitions to chartreuse in summer and beautiful orange and pink shades in fall.

This compact shrub is ideal for foundation plantings, borders, hedges, or accent landscaping in sunny gardens. Cold hardy down to -30°F, Mellow Yellow Spirea is an easy-care landscape plant that provides texture and color throughout the year. You will receive a healthy container-grown plant similar in size and condition to the listing photos.

You will receive:
1 live Spiraea thunbergii ‘Mellow Yellow’ shrub
Size: approximately 12–15 inches wide
Shipped in #3 nursery container
Healthy, rooted landscape plant
Secure packaging for safe delivery

Growing Information
Common Name: Mellow Yellow Willow Leaf Spirea
Botanical Name: Spiraea thunbergii ‘Ogon’
Plant Type: Deciduous flowering shrub
Growth Stage: Established container-grown plant
Sun Requirements: Full sun preferred for best foliage color
Soil: Well-draining garden soil
Watering: Moderate; water regularly during establishment
Mature Height: 4–5 feet
Mature Width: 4–5 feet
Growth Rate: Moderate
USDA Zones: 4–8
Container Friendly: Yes

Care Tip: Plant in a sunny location to maintain the brightest golden foliage color. Light pruning after flowering helps encourage dense growth and keeps the shrub neatly shaped.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.