1316 plants in this collection
Smaller version of 'Shasta'. Same brilliant white flowers on horizontal branches. (See DIR, HRT, F&J)Birds enjoy fruit.
More compact than the species. Horizontal tiered branching. White flowers spring to fall in The Soutn.
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.
Viburnum is the classical Latin name for the wayfaring tree, and prunifolium means plum-leaved, for foliage that could pass for a wild plum at a glance. The English names have piled up over the centuries: blackhaw, stagbush, stagberry, sloe-leaved viburnum, and in some counties nannyberry. The haw in blackhaw is borrowed from hawthorn, which the shrub resembles in flower and in fruit while being no relation at all.
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.
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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.
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.
Laurustinus flowers when almost nothing else does. From late autumn the flat heads are already formed and waiting, tight clusters of deep pink buds sitting on the ends of the shoots, and through winter and into spring they open a few at a time into small fragrant white flowers, so the shrub carries pink and white together for months. The leaves are lustrous and leathery, dark above and noticeably paler beneath, held densely enough that the plant works as a screen the whole year. What follows the flowers is stranger and better: ovoid fruits of a hard metallic blue, almost enameled, ripening slowly to black.
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.
To 5 feet. Same good qualities as V. tinus. (See DIR, F&J, HRT) Birds enjoy fruit.
Narrow evergreen leaves. Parent of many cultivars.
Compact shrub to 5 feet. Snowball white flowers. A U.S. National Arboretum introduction.
Upright. Reaches 6 to 10 feet. White flowers. Red fruit enjoyed by birds.
Deciduous. To 11 feet. Fragrant rose colored flowers in early winter. (See DIR, HRT, F&J)
Some viburnums are grown for the eye and some for the nose; the Burkwood viburnums are firmly the latter. Viburnum x burkwoodii is a cross between the intensely fragrant Viburnum carlesii and the glossy evergreen Viburnum utile, first raised by the brothers Burkwood and their partner Skipwith at their nursery near Kingston-on-Thames in England in 1924. 'Park Farm Hybrid' is a sister seedling from that same celebrated work, selected for a bolder flower and a deeper bud.
Medium to large deciduous shrub with outstanding red flower buds, white flowers have spicy clove fragrance. Brilliant orange-red fall color. Don Egolf selection from U.S. National Arboretum. 1992 Penn. Hort., Gold Medal winnter. Plant in fertile well-drained soil in sunny location.
A neat, dome-shaped evergreen bred for foliage and form. Viburnum x globosum is a garden hybrid between Viburnum calvum and the well-known Viburnum davidii, and 'Jermyn's Globe' was selected as the best seedling from a batch raised at the celebrated Hillier Nurseries in England around 1964, chosen for the way the plant rounds into a dense, self-shaping globe. The cultivar name honors Hillier's Jermyns arboretum in Hampshire.
A tough, glossy evergreen born of two Chinese parents and a Prague nursery. Viburnum x pragense is the cross of the leatherleaf viburnum, Viburnum rhytidophyllum, with the service viburnum, Viburnum utile, first raised by the plantsman Josef Vik at the Municipal Nurseries of Prague in 1955 and named for the city in 1959. The epithet pragense simply means of Prague, a rare instance of a garden hybrid carrying a birthplace rather than a botanist.
Evergreen shrub which is hybrid between V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile. Fast growing, hardy, and probably better landscape shrub than either parent. Dark green shiny leaves. Slightly fragrant flowers pink in bud opening white in spring. (See DIR)
