Not hardy plant with slow growth. It prefers full sunlight. This plant is suitable for small gardens, for creating shrubland and woods (several varieties together), for cultivation in pots, for large avenues and squares and for creating groups. This is a small deciduous tree or large shrub with bark that peels off, revealing smooth, reddish-brown wood, which is very decorative, especially in winter when the plant is bare. Its elliptical or elongated leaves are green; in autumn, they turn reddish-purple. Flowers are clustered in dense terminal racemes, ranging from 10 to 20 cm long, giving rise to a spectacular flowering display that lasts almost all summer. It grows well in all the plain regions of our peninsula, but the most abundant flowering occurs in regions with hot summers and fairly humid atmospheres. It prefers fertile, well-drained soil. It blooms on new wood and therefore should be pruned short in the second half of February, never before.