An elegant shrub, with pretty maple-like leaves, that flowers and fruits freely, has fiery autumn colour and never gets too large – well, we could all do with one of those, couldn’t we?
This exceptional Award of Garden Merit-winning deciduous shrub is appealing right from the start, when its three or five-pointed, fresh green, maple-like leaves unfurl in spring. In May and June, these are followed by pure-white lacecap heads of flowers up to 7.5cm across, which in this variety are produced far more generously than in other forms.
The prolific flowering is followed by plentiful bright-red fruits, which usually persist until well into winter, although they eventually shrivel and by mid-winter may look a little like dried cranberries – edible, but very tart. Finally, in a colourful end-of-season flourish,…
