1316 plants in this collection
Little known in the US, this large shrub or small tree has attractive evergren foliage with relatively large leaves. Curiously the waxy coating on the leaves enables one to mark on them. Tubular white flowers with lilac stamens.
New compact selection of Arrowwood with glossy leaves and very showy blue fruit in late summer. Said to make a good hedge and be "perfect for residential landscapes". Patented "Proven Winner" from Spring Meadow Nursery. Sun or semi-shade. Moist soil.
Linden Viburnum is native to Eastern Asia. This hardy deciduous shrub has flat clusters of white flowers followed by abundant and persistent bright red berries making it very ornamental. It is popular and adaptable in cooler regions but Dirr (Manual of Woody Landscape Plants) advises that in zone 8 it should be planted in "moist soil and partial shade". This selection was shared with us by Brian Upchurch who operated Highland Creek Nursery, an exceptional source of unusual plants in the mountains of North Carolina. Mr. Upchurch obtained this dwarf selection in Japan but was unable to learn of a varietal name, only "Daruma type - no name". In addition to being of a smaller size it appears to have smaller leaves.
Don Shadow says this cultivar holds its rich red fruit all winter. Fruit sets best when pollinated by another cultivar. The form is compact and upright. More upright form, excellent fruit production. Birds enjoy fruit. (See DIR, F&J, HRT)
This Viburnum is a rare evergreen to semi-evergreen shrub or small tree with spreading often drooping branches. The glossy, leaves are relatively small. It bears white flowers in summer followed by scarlet fruit. Hillier says: "Large specimens in full fruit are extremely effective in autumn". This shrub from western China and the Himalayas seems to be little known in the U.S. but well adapted to the South. Hardy Viburnums are ubiquitous in the North but a number of fine evergreen Viburnums offered by Woodlanders should be in southern gardens. Unfortunately they are scarcely available from nurseries.
This Viburnum is a medium sized evergreen shrub of dense, bushy habit. The small dark green, almost round leaves are distinctive. It bears clusters of small white flowers in late spring. It was introduced from China by E.H. Wilson in 1904 but remains virtually unknown in the U.S. Our stock came from Hillier Nursery in England via Mr. John Frierson of Columbia, SC. This is an unusual Viburnum that seems to grow well in our area.
Carl Peter Thunberg, the Swedish physician who talked his way onto the Dutch trading island of Dejima in 1775 and used the post to become one of the first Europeans to seriously botanize a closed Japan, was the first to describe this plant to science. Richard Oldham, the last of the great Kew collectors, gathered the shrub again near Nagasaki in 1862 and called the plant, a little dismissively, a small tree on the hills. In a garden the plant never quite loses that ambition, settling instead into a sturdy, slow evergreen bush.
Luzon viburnum is one of the quiet unknowns of Southern gardening, a handsome large shrub grown around Houston for years and almost nowhere else in the United States. Woodlanders collected this plant in the Houston area, where the species had already proven durable and undemanding in Gulf Coast heat. Viburnum luzonicum comes from open forest, scrub, and roadside thickets across southern China, Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, and the epithet points to Luzon, largest of the Philippine islands, from which Robert Allen Rolfe described the species at Kew.
A splendid large deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub producing very large "snowball" globes of sterile flowers which are first green and then white giving a great show in late spring. Allow ample space in sunny to semi shady location with good, well-drained soil. Native to China and a great Viburnum for the South.
Closely related to V. cassinoides. Birds enjoy fruit. (See DIR, F&J, HRT, O&T)
'Pollinator' is a native smooth witherod grown for a specific and useful job: to pollinate the showier fruiting selections of Viburnum nudum, above all 'Winterthur' and 'Brandywine'. The species is not strictly dioecious, but the flowers set fruit far more heavily when a second, genetically distinct clone blooms nearby, and that is exactly what this plant provides.
'Winterthur' is the garden aristocrat of the native smooth witherod, an upright, well-built deciduous shrub selected by the late Hal Bruce at Winterthur Gardens in Delaware and awarded the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's Gold Medal, the Styer Award, in 1991. The glossy green leaves give the plant clean structure and coverage through the season, then turn deep burgundy and red in fall.
Narrow-leaved variety. See V. nudum for culture. Birds enjoy fruit. (See DIR, F&J, HRT, O&T)
Adapted to wet conditions in the wild. Drier conditions under cultivation. (See DIR, B&T, F&J, HRT) Birds enjoy fruit.
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.
'Mrs. Schiller's Delight' is an excellent dwarf clone of Viburnum obovatum, the fine small-leaved native evergreen known as Walter's viburnum. The clone was selected by our friend Steve Reifler in Florida, who thought the dense little shrub looked like 'Schillings', the widely grown dwarf yaupon holly, and named the plant for a friend whose name happened to sound almost the same. Woodlanders listed this shrub for years as 'Miss Schiller's Delight'; the trade name is 'Mrs.', and the spelling is corrected here.
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.
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.
Dense, mounded, compact form to 6 feet. Burgundy leaves in fall. Typical white flowers. (See DIR, F&J, HRT)Birds enjoy fruit.
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.
