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Adapted to wet conditions in the wild. Drier conditions under cultivation. (See DIR, B&T, F&J, HRT) Birds enjoy fruit.

Hardiness

Zones 7–9

Bloom

Gold

Miss Schiller's Delight' is an excellent dwarf clone of Viburnum obovatum which is a fine small leaf native evergreen shrub. This clone was selected by our friend Steve Riefler in Florida. Steve named it for a friend whose name, like the plant, resembles 'Shillings's'( the widely grown dwarf Yaupon Holly). It is an especially floriferous clone. Woodlanders was one of the first nurseries to offer the now popular Riefler dwarf clones of Viburnum obovatum.

Hardiness

Zones 7–9

Height

2–3 ft.

Spread

2–3 ft.

An attractive somewhat pendulous form of our native Walter Viburnum. Viburnum obovatum and its selections are becoming increasingly popular landscape plants, especially in Florida. This selection by Nancy Bissett at The Natives Nursery in central Florida was introduced by Woodlanders. This native evergreen Viburnum species with small leaves, clusters of white flowers, and black fruits is native to swamps and lowgrounds but makes a good ornamental shrub in landscape situations. It was virtually unknown as a horticultural subject when first offered by Woodlanders in the 1980's.

Hardiness

Zones 8–9

Height

10–12 ft.

Spread

6–8 ft.

Bloom

Various

Walter's viburnum is one of the finest small evergreens of the Southern coastal plain, a fine-textured native named for Thomas Walter, the eighteenth-century Carolina planter and botanist who first described the species in his Flora Caroliniana. The botanical name obovatum points to the little obovate leaves, broadest toward the tip, and 'Compactum' gathers all of that into a low, rounded, mounding form densely set with small leaves and smothered in white flowers each spring.

Hardiness

Zones 7–9

Light

Part Shade / Full Sun

Height

2–3 ft.

Spread

2–3 ft.

Bloom

White

Plant type

Shrub

Few shrubs wear a name as plainly as this one. Odoratissimum is Latin for the most fragrant, the sweetest-scented, and sweet viburnum earns the superlative in late spring, when conical panicles of tiny white flowers open across the canopy and carry a soft, honeyed perfume on warm air. A member of the moschatel family, Adoxaceae, and a cousin of the elders and the arrowwoods, Viburnum odoratissimum ranges as a wild plant from the Himalayan foothills of India through Myanmar, Thailand, and Vietnam to China, Taiwan, Korea, and Japan, a broad Asian sweep that hints at the plant's easy adaptability in the warm garden.

Hardiness

Zones 8–10

Light

Full Sun / Part Shade

Height

10–15 ft.

Spread

10–12 ft.

Bloom

White

Plant type

Shrub

Dense, mounded, compact form to 6 feet. Burgundy leaves in fall. Typical white flowers. (See DIR, F&J, HRT)Birds enjoy fruit.

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Bloom

Red

Smaller version of 'Shasta'. Same brilliant white flowers on horizontal branches. (See DIR, HRT, F&J)Birds enjoy fruit.

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Bloom

Red

More compact than the species. Horizontal tiered branching. White flowers spring to fall in The Soutn.

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Dr. Michael Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) highly recommends this "tremendous" introduction from Don Egolf's breeding program at U.S. National Arboretum. 'Shasta' is a large deciduous shrub with very showy white clusters of sterile and fertile florets atop spreading branches. A big plant, it needs space and a fertile well drained soil in sun or semi shade. Doublefile Viburnum is native to eastern Asia.

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Height

8–10 ft.

Spread

12–15 ft.

Bloom

Red

A viburnum grown for the leaves rather than the flowers, and one of the rarest evergreens in the American nursery trade. Viburnum propinquum was described by the botanist William Hemsley in 1888 from the temperate forests of China, and the plant ranges through central and southern China, Taiwan, and north to Luzon in the Philippines. The species name comes from the Latin propinquus, meaning near or akin, a botanist's nod to the plant's close kinship with several related Asian viburnums. Woodlanders is among the very few nurseries anywhere to offer the Chinese evergreen viburnum.

Hardiness

Zones 7–9

Light

Part Shade / Full Shade

Height

6–8 ft.

Spread

6–8 ft.

Bloom

White

Plant type

Shrub

Blackhaw Viburnum is an attractive small tree with oval leathery deciduous leaves and showy flat topped clusters of white flowers followed blue fruits which are attractive to birds. It has very interesting almost black checkered bark on the trunks. Plant in sun or semi shade. Soil should be well drained. This Viburnum is native to eastern U.S. and it becomes a small tree.

Hardiness

Zones 3–9

Height

15–20 ft.

Spread

10–15 ft.

A choice small tree somewhat like Viburnum prunifolium. It is tardily deciduous with glossy leaves. It bears clusters of white flowers followed by blue-black fruits which are eaten by birds. This is an excellent small specimen tree with year-round interest for sun or light shade. Buds are covered with a deep rich rusty-brown pubescence. Withstands drought quite well. Plant in sun or semi shade with well-drained soil.

Hardiness

Zones 5–9

Height

15–20 ft.

Spread

10–12 ft.

Bloom

Red

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This tall evergreen shrub has glossy, leathery leaves about 4 inches long. It bears white flowers in flat-topped clusters followed by bright red fruits. It has proved hardy here in zone 8. Our plants were originally received from the U.S. National Arboretum and not believed to be hardy outdoors there. This rare and little known Viburnum from China appears to be an excellent shrub for the South. Introduced by Woodlanders but probably due to become much more widely available. Plant in semi shade in good moist but well drained soil.

Hardiness

Zones 8–10

Height

8–10 ft.

Spread

6–8 ft.

This medium to large shrub can become almost tree-like. It has lustrous dark green leaves which often hold on until late November. Seneca is the result from a self-pollination of V. sieboldii. Selected for abundant, large, pendant inflorescence and red fruit on red pedicels which are attaractive to birds but may persist for 3 months. This selection from the U.S. National Arboretum is of an Asian species.

Hardiness

Zones 4–8

Height

12–18 ft.

Spread

12–15 ft.

They carry their Roman name almost unchanged. Tinus was what the Romans called the shrub two thousand years ago, the name Pliny the Elder set down in his Natural History, and when Linnaeus came to catalogue them he simply kept it. The reason gardeners have held onto Viburnum tinus just as long is that they flower in the cold. While the rest of the garden is shut down for winter, they cover themselves in tight clusters of deep carmine buds that open a few at a time across weeks into small white flowers, so they carry both colors at once through the bleakest stretch of the year. The foliage is the second argument, dense and dark and glossy, evergreen to the ground with none of the gapping that lesser shrubs fall into. 'Spring Bouquet' is the compact, well-behaved selection, rounding into a tidy four to six feet, which makes it the one to reach for when you want a hedge, a low screen, or a piece of evergreen structure that also happens to bloom in February. Metallic blue-black berries follow for the birds, set best when more than one plant grows nearby. They take shade, salt, and coastal wind without complaint. Few evergreens hand you this much in the dead of winter, which is precisely the season you'll be grateful for it.

Hardiness

Zones 8–10

Light

Full Sun / Part Shade

Height

5–7 ft.

Spread

4–5 ft.

Bloom

White

Plant type

Shrub

To 5 feet. Same good qualities as V. tinus. (See DIR, F&J, HRT) Birds enjoy fruit.

Hardiness

Zones 8–10

Narrow evergreen leaves. Parent of many cultivars.

Hardiness

Zones 6–8

Compact shrub to 5 feet. Snowball white flowers. A U.S. National Arboretum introduction.

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Upright. Reaches 6 to 10 feet. White flowers. Red fruit enjoyed by birds.

Hardiness

Zones 5–7