This evergreen shrub with dark foliage and fragrant flower clusters is very effective as a landscape accent, mass planting, or combined with azalea and rhododendron. Leaves turn bronze with cold weather. Adapts to full sun or shade. Prefers acid (sour) to slightly alkaline (sweet) soil. Deer resistant.

Beautiful flowers in shades of pink to white attract butterflies to your garden. A lovely shrub for the mixed garden or landscape planting. Shear lightly after first flowering for best appearance. Hardiness and bloom time vary with variety.

Deciduous shrub with slender gray-green leaves in summer and attractive purple twigs in winter. Handsome rounded habit. Makes a nice informal hedge. Striking combined with large evergreens such as spruce.