Varieties
'Ice Pink'
This shrub grows to 1.5 m (5ft) tall and produces new foliage that is splashed with pink and white. The foliage colour commonly reverts and mature leaves are a uniform green during summer.

'Renaissance'
This shrub is similar to the species producing white flowers and has foliage that is resistant to disease.

'Snow White'
The shrub grows to 1.5 m tall (5ft) with a larger disease resistant foliage and the white flowers fall away once finished. It is commonly grown form and is used in parks and gardens along borders or as a specimen.