It prefers light and rich soils. It has rapid growth. Resists the cold well. It is grown as a alignment tree and forming groups in gardens. A good pruning is fundamental if you want to enjoy its very popular flowering in its Chinese native for reforestation, road curtains, and as ornamental. It grows in multiplicity of soils, markedly in the poor, but needs a lot of light and does not like a high water table. It is a very important wood in China, Korea, Japan for making musical instruments to sow very thin seeds to the surface of a sandy mixture with commercial substrates. Cover the pot with cristal and put it to a hot place in the shade per with light visit my store, it will surprise you !!!!