I think I know it's name..yes, it is common, I have one, I will be back..or maybe someone else might get here first..:)

I look forward to your return!!
Thanks.

Goldflame Spirea
Spiraea x bumalda 'Goldflame'

Yes agreed, now you can be really ruthless with this spirea and prune it hard back if you so wish, comes back with masses of new shoots and gives it a more compact habit best done early spring, i always do them round about March time, having said that they can look effective in certain situations left to scramble away.

Looking at this, I've decided I've GOT to have one. Isn't it glorious? Now what can I kill off to find space for it...........?

For some reason ours self seeds all over the place, so in the end we have decided to get rid of it. Too much time spent weeding out its progeny.

Didn't do that here Ob but we are on solid clay

Interesting - I've never found a seedling either

My Mum used to have a huge Goldflame bush, and I don't ever remember any seedlings - she'd have transplanted them all over the garden if there had been.

Well, perhaps we are unlucky then, but I have just pulled out hundreds from around our plant.

Shame it's not something rare Owboggy. You'd make a fortune!

It amazes me sometimes. They were selling pots of Sorbaria Sem at £9.99 at the Plant Fair. I have just dug up and taken to the Recycling place, over a dozen well rooted suckers. G. Roxanne was voted plant of the century. We have just composted metres of the pest. Wild Violets at £3.50 a pot when I am weeding out hundreds every week. My garden must be worth a mint (another thug!).

It's the same with ophiopogon - sells for almost £10 a pot in places down south, and yet it can spread very rapidly in the right (wrong?) place

I'm with you on the violets, Ob, Darned nuisance - would take over my entire garden, given half a chance.