Cultivar
'Pendula'
This large shrub grows to 4 m (12 ft) tall and wide with semi-pendulous branches that form a dense rounded habit. It has narrow lanceolate willow-like leaves that are pubescent, silvery grey when a young maturing to glossy green and produces creamy white saucer-shaped flowers to 20 mm (ľ in) wide in corymbs of 6-8, during early spring.

This commonly cultivated shrub is planted parks and gardens for colour contrast or is used along borders or against a sunny wall for screening.

It prefers an open sunny position but will tolerate some shade and grows in most well-drained moderately fertile moist to dry soils and is ph adaptable. Once established it has a low water requirement (Scale: 1-drop from 3), responding to mulch and an occasional deep watering during dry periods, particularly for young plants.