Plant Type

Shrub

 

Height Range

3-6'

 

Flower Color

Pink, White

 

Flower Season

Spring

 

Leaf Color

Green

 

Bark Color

Brown, Red

 

Fruit Color

Red

 

Fruit Season

Summer

Sun

Full, Half

 

Water

High

 

Growth Rate

Moderate

 

Soil Type

Loam

 

Soil Condition

Average, Rich, Well-drained

 

Soil pH

Neutral

 

Adverse Factors

Messy

Design Styles

English Cottage, Japanese, Woodland

 

Accenting Features

Showy Flowers

 

Seasonal Interest

Spring

 

Location Uses

Background, Shrub Border, Foundation, Walls / Fences

 

Special Uses

Cut Flowers, Hedge, Naturalizing

 

Attracts Wildlife

Birds

This spring-blooming deciduous shrub doesn't produce almonds, but does have lovely, rose-like pink blossoms appearing in the early spring, just in time for daffodils and early tulips. It grows about 5 to 6 feet tall and 3 to 4 feet wide, with an upright vase shape. Leaves emerge after flowering a bronzy red, mature to green, but no fall color of note. Flowers are followed by small, dark red fruits enjoyed by birds. 'Rosea Plena' has double-petaled, pink flowers; "Alba Plena" has double-petaled white flowers. An old-fashioned shrub.

Grow in well drained soil in full to part sun, ideally in a location with some protection from freezing winter winds. Prefers soils rich in organic matter. To maintain its form, prune selectively immediately after flowering; sheering cuasing it to beceom dense, irregular in shape, and twiggy. In time it may sucker, slowly forming a dense little colony.