spiral

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If you have a very sunny area, I would recommend varieties of ninebarks, spireas or viburnums.

From New York Times • Jun. 26, 2013

Brilliant verbenas in rich robes are glowing,   And spireas their fair silver glories maintain, While violets and lilies their charms are bestowing   To add to the splendors of sweet Flora's reign.

From The Emigrant Mechanic and Other Tales in Verse Together with Numerous Songs Upon Canadian Subjects by Cowherd, Thomas

For the pot plants there are hosts of things; freesias, cyclamen, marguerite-carnations, primulas, Christmas roses, arums, azaleas, kalmias, spireas, chrysanthemums, narcissus, roman hyacinths, and so on.

From Small Gardens and How to Make the Most of Them by Biddle, Violet Purton

But most spireas are also able to fertilize themselves, insects failing them.

From Wild Flowers An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect Visitors by Blanchan, Neltje

This is true of most fruit-trees, and such shrubs as lilac, forsythia, tree peony, wistaria, some spireas and viburnums, weigela, deutzia.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)