{"title":"Viburnum","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eViburnum\u003c\/em\u003e was a name the Romans already had, set down by writers who used it for the wayfaring tree colonizing the roadsides of Italy. The genus they named has turned out to be one of the most useful a gardener can keep, a broad company of shrubs and small trees that between them cover nearly every season. Some open flat lacecap plates of white in spring, others gather their florets into full snowball globes, and a good many carry a clove-and-vanilla scent strong enough to stop you on the path. Later come the berries, red or blue or a black that shines, and in the deciduous kinds a fall that runs to wine and copper.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat makes viburnums worth collecting rather than simply planting is how far they range. The Koreanspice group, \u003cem\u003eViburnum carlesii\u003c\/em\u003e and the \u003cem\u003eburkwoodii\u003c\/em\u003e hybrids bred from them, are grown almost entirely for fragrance. The doublefiles hold their branches out in flat tiers and line them with bloom, so that a plant in flower looks snowed upon. \u003cem\u003eViburnum macrocephalum\u003c\/em\u003e swells to true snowballs the size of a fist. Against these deciduous performers stand the evergreens, the glossy \u003cem\u003eawabuki\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003etinus\u003c\/em\u003e and the rarer cinnamon-leaved sorts, which give a garden its winter walls.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSeveral of the finest are natives of the American Southeast, and these earn their place twice over. \u003cem\u003eViburnum nudum\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eacerifolium\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eprunifolium\u003c\/em\u003e and their kin are tough, long-lived, and untroubled by much, and they feed the garden's other residents as generously as they furnish it: pollinators work the spring flowers, and birds strip the fall fruit in a hurry. One old piece of advice still holds. Plant more than a single clone of a fruiting kind, because most viburnums set their best berries only when a different selection stands nearby to pollinate them.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn the garden they ask little and give a great deal, at home as specimens, as informal hedges and screens, or layered into a mixed border where their bulk anchors lighter things. Give them sun to part shade and a soil that is merely reasonable, and most look after themselves for decades. Find the larger kinds among our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/large-shrubs\"\u003eLarge Shrubs\u003c\/a\u003e and the compact ones among our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/small-medium-shrubs\"\u003eSmall \u0026amp; Medium Shrubs\u003c\/a\u003e, and look for the native viburnums in our \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/southeast-natives\"\u003eSoutheastern Natives\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"viburnum-x-pragense-rhytidophyllum-x-utile","title":"Viburnum x pragense (rhytidophyllum x utile)","description":"\u003cp\u003eEvergreen 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)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008199283,"sku":"VIBU-PRAG-RHYT-UTIL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1416.jpg?v=1720141609"},{"product_id":"viburnum-macrocephalum","title":"Viburnum macrocephalum","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008395891,"sku":"VIBU-MACR-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-554.jpg?v=1720141612"},{"product_id":"viburnum-plicatum-var-tomentosum-nanum","title":"Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum \"Nanum\"","description":"Dense, mounded, compact form to 6 feet. Burgundy leaves in fall. Typical white flowers. (See DIR, F\u0026amp;J, HRT)Birds enjoy fruit.","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008428659,"sku":"VIBU-PLIC-TOME-NANU-01G","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"viburnum-plicatum-var-tomentosum-shasta","title":"Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum 'Shasta'","description":"\u003cp\u003eDr. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008461427,"sku":"VIBU-PLIC-TOME-SHAS-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-562.jpg?v=1720141616"},{"product_id":"viburnum-plicatum-var-tomentosum-shoshoni","title":"Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum \"Shoshoni\"","description":"Smaller version of 'Shasta'. Same brilliant white flowers on horizontal branches. (See DIR, HRT, F\u0026amp;J)Birds enjoy fruit.","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008494195,"sku":"VIBU-PLIC-TOME-SHOS-01G","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"viburnum-nudum","title":"Viburnum nudum","description":"\u003cp\u003eClosely related to V. cassinoides. Birds enjoy fruit. (See DIR, F\u0026amp;J, HRT, O\u0026amp;T)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008559731,"sku":"VIBU-NUDU-01G","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"viburnum-acerifolium","title":"Viburnum acerifolium","description":"\u003cp\u003eMapleleaf viburnum does what almost no other native shrub will do: thrive in dry shade. Most of the eastern American natives that gardeners reach for, serviceberry, red buckeye, sweetshrub, oakleaf hydrangea, want steady moisture and at least a few hours of sun. Viburnum acerifolium is the one that walks into the dry, root-tangled, low-light pocket beneath an established oak or beech and simply gets on with the job. The native range is genuinely vast, from New Brunswick south to Florida and west to Texas and the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, in upland forests, rocky slopes, and the edges of bluffs, making this one of the most widespread and most underused native shrubs of eastern North America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are the calling card. Three-lobed, coarsely toothed, and opposite, they read instantly as the foliage of a small red maple, so much so that in the woods mapleleaf viburnum is most often mistaken for seedlings of Acer rubrum, and the species name acerifolium makes the comparison official: leaves like Acer, the maples. From spring through summer the foliage holds a clean medium green, and then in autumn the shrub does something almost no other native does. Where most shrubs turn red, orange, or yellow, mapleleaf viburnum turns pink: fluorescent rose-pink, lavender, dusty mauve, sometimes deep grape-juice purple, and often three or four of those shades on the same plant at once. Michael Dirr describes the display as shades of fluorescent pink and rose-red to grape-juice purple-red, a genuinely distinctive note in a season that otherwise leans hot.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFlat-topped white flower clusters open in late spring and early summer and draw a wide cross-section of native pollinators, among them the Cetonia scarab beetles that carry branched body hairs almost identical to the pollen-collecting hairs of bees, one of the small, strange, beautiful pieces of evolutionary parallelism. The drupes that follow ripen through several stages, green to red to deep blue to nearly black, and hang in tight clusters into winter for ruffed grouse, woodland songbirds, white-footed mice, and chipmunks. Mapleleaf viburnum is also the larval host plant for the Spring Azure butterfly, Celastrina ladon, a small native blue that emerges with the first warm days and times its life cycle to the new spring foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe shrub grows four to six feet tall and slowly forms loose colonies by rhizomatous suckering, a virtue rather than a fault in the woodland borders, shade gardens, and restoration plantings where the plant belongs, and easily curbed by occasional pruning where a tighter shape is wanted. One point matters for fruit: mapleleaf viburnum needs more than one genetic strain nearby to set a heavy crop, so a lone plant will flower beautifully but fruit lightly, while two or more from different sources, or planted alongside another viburnum, will carry the dense berry display the wildlife depends on.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the shrub for the gardener with too much shade, the native-plant collector after something useful rather than merely showy, and the woodland gardener building a four-season bird and butterfly garden under a canopy of oaks. Voted the Georgia Native Plant Society's Plant of the Year in 2011, mapleleaf viburnum has been quietly earning that regard across its range for a very long time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008592499,"sku":"VIBU-ACER-01G","price":58.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/IMG_9069_adff08ae-d4a3-43f0-8ee8-7c29f3c9ca4c.jpg?v=1722280618"},{"product_id":"viburnum-sempervirens","title":"Viburnum sempervirens","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008723571,"sku":"VIBU-SEMP-01G","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1503.jpg?v=1720141625"},{"product_id":"viburnum-japonicum","title":"Viburnum japonicum","description":"\u003cp\u003eCarl 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are the first thing you notice: thick, glossy, dark green, and leathery enough to look lacquered. Turn one over and the underside is finely stippled with tiny dark dots, a quiet diagnostic that confirms the true plant and not Viburnum odoratissimum, with which the Japanese viburnum has been muddled in gardens for more than a century. Early summer brings rounded clusters of white flowers carrying a true jonquil sweetness, the kind of scent that travels across a yard, and red berries follow to hang on well past the leaves.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSlow is the operative word, and patience is the cost of admission. Hardy to about zone 7 and content in sun or near-full shade, the shrub is happiest set against a warm wall where the cold cannot find it. Japanese viburnum remains uncommon in American gardens and is likely to stay that way, which is most of the reason to grow one.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the plant as a glossy evergreen specimen, a fragrant anchor near a path or doorway where the early-summer scent can be caught, or a slow, substantial backbone in a sheltered shrub border. Pair with camellias, tea olive, and other broadleaf evergreens, give a warm, protected spot at the cold edge of the range, and let the lacquered foliage and jonquil-scented bloom reward the wait.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008756339,"sku":"VIBU-JAPO-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/viburnum-japonicum-5_Woodlanders.jpg?v=1747249886"},{"product_id":"viburnum-odoratissimum","title":"Viburnum odoratissimum","description":"\u003cp\u003eFew 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is the year-round argument. Broad, leathery, and glossy, the deep green leaves are shorter and wider than those of the closely allied Viburnum awabuki, and they clothe a dense, upright, spreading frame from top to bottom without the bare ankles that spoil so many large evergreens. Crush a leaf and a distinct, resinous scent rises, an old family trait of the viburnums. Left to grow, sweet viburnum builds into a substantial shrub or small tree of ten to fifteen feet, taking full sun or the dappled edge of shade with equal grace.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAfter the flowers fade, the shrub sets small oval drupes that ripen from bright red to glossy black, a slow color shift that hangs both shades in the same cluster for weeks and draws mockingbirds, cardinals, and other fruit-eating birds into the garden. In parts of the plant's native range the leaves and bark carry a folk history in traditional preparations, though sweet viburnum is grown in Western gardens strictly for beauty and screening rather than for any medicinal use. The dense evergreen habit has long made the species a workhorse hedge across the Gulf South and the milder Pacific coast.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSet sweet viburnum where a tall, fast, fragrant evergreen is wanted: a privacy screen along a boundary, the green backbone of a mixed border, or a clipped or informal hedge that flowers. The plant asks only for moisture-retentive soil that still drains freely and a position out of hard freezes, since the leaves scorch below the low twenties. Give the shrub room to reach full size, or shear after bloom to hold a chosen height, and enjoy one of the most useful broadleaf evergreens for zones eight through ten.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePhoto courtesy of Kenpei.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008821875,"sku":"VIBU-ODOR-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/viburnum-odoratissimum_Kenpei.jpg?v=1723489060"},{"product_id":"viburnum-obovatum-st-paul","title":"Viburnum obovatum \"St. Paul\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058008887411,"sku":"VIBU-OBOV-ST-PAUL-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-559.jpg?v=1720141634"},{"product_id":"viburnum-nudum-var-angustifolium","title":"Viburnum nudum var. angustifolium","description":"\u003cp\u003eNarrow-leaved variety. See V. nudum for culture. Birds enjoy fruit. 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Plant in sun or semi shade with well-drained soil.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058009018483,"sku":"VIBU-RUFI-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-255.jpg?v=1720141639"},{"product_id":"viburnum-sieboldii-seneca","title":"Viburnum sieboldii \"Seneca\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058009247859,"sku":"VIBU-SIEB-SENE-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-256.jpg?v=1720141642"},{"product_id":"viburnum-obovatum","title":"Viburnum obovatum","description":"\u003cp\u003eAdapted to wet conditions in the wild. Drier conditions under cultivation. (See DIR, B\u0026amp;T, F\u0026amp;J, HRT) Birds enjoy fruit.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058009280627,"sku":"VIBU-OBOV-01G","price":18.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"viburnum-nudum-winterthur","title":"Viburnum nudum 'Winterthur'","description":"\u003cp\u003e'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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCreamy-white flowers open in flat clusters in late spring and early summer, and the real show comes after, when the berries ripen through a remarkable sequence, green to white to bright pink to deep blue, often with several colors in a single cluster at once. The fruit draws birds and adds real habitat value, and the display is heaviest when a second clone, such as 'Pollinator' or 'Brandywine', grows nearby to cross-pollinate.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSmooth witherod is a plant of wet woods and swamp margins, so 'Winterthur' takes wet to average soil in stride and thrives where drainage is imperfect. Give the shrub full sun to part shade in moist, acid soil, and expect a compact, well-mannered frame of six to eight feet.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse 'Winterthur' in a mixed border, a native or pollinator planting, a rain garden, or a moist woodland edge, where the spring flowers, the multicolored berries, and the burgundy fall foliage each take a turn. Pair with other moisture-loving natives such as itea, clethra, and winterberry, and plant a compatible pollinizer close by for the fullest berry crop.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058009346163,"sku":"VIBU-NUDU-WINT-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-557.jpg?v=1720141647"},{"product_id":"viburnum-dilatatum-asian-beauty","title":"Viburnum dilatatum \"Asian Beauty\"","description":"\u003cp\u003eDon 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\u0026amp;J, HRT)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058009378931,"sku":"VIBU-DILA-ASIA-BEAU-01G","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}]},{"product_id":"viburnum-cinnamomifolium","title":"Viburnum cinnamomifolium","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe cinnamon-leaf viburnum is one of the great broadleaf evergreens of the genus, a substantial, dignified shrub from the mountain forests of western China, where mist gathers in the valleys and plants grow with quiet endurance. The species name cinnamomifolium means leaves like cinnamon, for the large, glossy, deeply triple-veined leaves that echo those of a true cinnamon tree, tooled and leathery as fine bookbinding. This is a plant that holds the line rather than blooms and fades with the hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe deep green, broad, oval leaves stay evergreen through every season, bringing shade-born structure and a subtle luster to the garden. Gardeners who know the smaller, tidier Viburnum davidii will recognize the family resemblance, but the cinnamon-leaf viburnum is more generous in form and far better suited to the soft winters of the American South, earning a place through form, depth, and resilience rather than through flash.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCome late spring, flat-topped clusters of small white flowers gather among the branches like lace pinned to an old coat, and in their wake come shiny blue-black fruits, modest and glossy and welcome to the birds that know where to look. Planted in rich, well-drained soil in dappled light or morning sun, the shrub rises eight to twelve feet, full and finely shaped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUse the cinnamon-leaf viburnum as a strong evergreen hedge, a noble background, or a solitary specimen that anchors a quiet corner year after year. Hillier once called the species an imposing shrub when well grown, and so it proves, a plant of permanence and presence, still rare in cultivation and all the more worth seeking for it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058009477235,"sku":"VIBU-CINN-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/ViburnumcinnamifoliumWoodlanders1.jpg?v=1749146224"},{"product_id":"viburnum-utile","title":"Viburnum utile","description":"\u003cp\u003eNarrow evergreen leaves. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage is the whole reason to grow this shrub. Narrow, elliptic, and three-veined, the leaves emerge coppery and settle to a lustrous dark green, leathery and neat, held on arching branches that give the rounded frame a quiet, architectural poise the year round. Few broadleaf evergreens read as cleanly at close range, and the polished leaves catch light in a shaded border where duller foliage would disappear.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring the shrub carries small, flat-topped clusters of greenish-white flowers, modest against the leaves but useful to the season's first pollinators. 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Raulston saw the exceptional fruiting habit at once and introduced the plant to American horticulture. The species itself, Viburnum awabuki, is native to the warm-temperate regions of East Asia, including Japan, Taiwan, and Korea, and 'Chindo' stands out among awabuki forms for heavier fruit set, thicker, glossier foliage, and reliable performance across the Southeastern United States.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA note on names: 'Chindo' is sometimes mislabeled Viburnum macrophyllum and is often confused with Viburnum odoratissimum. The two are related, but Viburnum awabuki generally carries thicker, glossier leaves and better cold tolerance than the odoratissimum forms usually grown in the South, which is much of what makes 'Chindo' the better plant for a Southern garden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGive 'Chindo' room, since this is not a small foundation shrub but a substantial structural element, twelve to fifteen feet tall in time. Use the plant as an evergreen screen or privacy hedge, a strong vertical accent in a mixed border, or a dark, glossy backdrop for a woodland garden, and lean on the humidity and coastal tolerance in Deep South and seaside plantings. In spring the creamy, lightly fragrant flowers give way to the heavy, pendulous red fruit clusters that are the whole point of the plant, dramatic against the lacquered foliage and welcome to birds. A proven Raulston introduction that continues to earn a place in the Southern landscape. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058010296435,"sku":"VIBU-TINU-SPRI-BOUQ-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/A8F5B557-3320-4389-9753-9D8224100B48.jpg?v=1771508990"},{"product_id":"viburnum-x-globosum-jermyns-globe","title":"Viburnum x globosum 'Jermyn's Globe'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are the making of the plant. Leathery, elliptic, and prominently veined, they emerge and hold a deep, undulating green, glossier and more refined than those of the familiar David viburnum, and they clothe the rounded frame from the ground up. The dense, even dome needs almost no pruning to keep the shape, which is precisely what recommends the shrub for structured, low-maintenance planting.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late spring, flat-topped clusters of small white flowers open from pink buds and draw bees and other pollinators, and where more than one plant grows to allow cross-pollination, ovoid berries follow in a striking metallic blue-black, an inheritance from the David viburnum parent. 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This is a horticultural selection of the very rare and perhaps endangered Viburnum bracteatum which is found on limestone soils in the NW Georgia - NE Alabama area.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058010525811,"sku":"VIBU-BRAC-EMER-LUST-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-1797.jpg?v=1720141699"},{"product_id":"viburnum-luzonicum","title":"Viburnum luzonicum","description":"\u003cp\u003eLuzon 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. \u003cem\u003eViburnum luzonicum\u003c\/em\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are elliptic to ovate, three to six inches long, and variable enough from plant to plant that a hedge grown from seed reads as a texture rather than a repetition. Foliage looks broadly like arrowwood, \u003cem\u003eViburnum dentatum\u003c\/em\u003e. In the Deep South the leaves commonly hang on through winter, coloring red-purple and holding until new growth pushes them off in spring; farther north the shrub behaves as a straightforward deciduous plant. Flat white cymes open in mid to late spring, followed by small round drupes that ripen red and then darken to black, sparsely borne but handsome against late-season foliage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA word of honesty about the flowers: viburnum bloom in this group carries a musty edge at close range, a pollination strategy rather than a fault. Sited as a screen or a boundary hedge, the scent is a non-issue and the display is generous. Growth is fast, the frame is dense, twiggy, and rounded, and the shrub takes shearing well, which makes Luzon viburnum genuinely useful in zone 8 and 9 gardens where most viburnums either sulk in the heat or stand bare by December.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGive this viburnum fertile, well-drained soil with plenty of organic matter, in full sun or half a day of shade. Established plants tolerate real drought. Pollinators work the flowers, songbirds take the fruit, and there are no serious pest or disease problems on record. 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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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne of several increasingly popular dwarf selections of a fine species, this clone is grown at the JC Raulston Arboretum of North Carolina State University and may well be the same plant as 'Densa'. Whatever the name, the effect is a tidy evergreen bun two to three feet high and wide, neat enough for the front of a bed and generous with bloom.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring the small flat cymes of white flowers cover the shrub and feed early pollinators, followed by small fruit that ripens red to black for the birds. 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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\". 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'Park Farm Hybrid' is a sister seedling from that same celebrated work, selected for a bolder flower and a deeper bud.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late March and April, rounded clusters of deep pink buds open to white blooms flushed shell-pink, and the perfume is the point: a rich, clove-sweet fragrance, spicy and carrying, that scents a whole corner of the garden on a mild spring day. The flowers of 'Park Farm Hybrid' run larger and the buds a deeper pink than the parent hybrid, and the bloom is reported to hold as long as two weeks where cool, still weather allows.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe foliage sets this selection apart as much as the flower. Longer, narrower, and glossier than the leaves of ordinary Burkwood viburnums, the dark green leaves hold through mild winters and drop in hard ones, which makes the shrub evergreen across the warm South and semi-evergreen or briefly deciduous farther north. The plant builds a dense, upright frame of eight to ten feet in height and spread over time.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Park Farm Hybrid' carries a quiet place in horticultural history: the plant has served the breeder Michael Dirr in his viburnum work, crossed with Viburnum macrocephalum var. keteleeri and backcrossed to Viburnum utile. In the garden, set the shrub where the April fragrance can be met at close range, beside a door, a path, or a bench, in a mixed border or a fragrant foundation planting. Give sun to part shade and well-drained soil, and let the perfume do the work spring after spring.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058011148403,"sku":"VIBU-BURK-PARK-01G","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/DETA-2133.jpg?v=1720141725"},{"product_id":"viburnum-x-pragense-decker","title":"Viburnum x pragense 'Decker'","description":"\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe leaves are the inheritance. Elliptic and up to four inches long, glossy and lightly wrinkled above and felted pale beneath, they are shorter and neater than the bold, corrugated foliage of the leatherleaf parent, and they clothe a dense, multi-stemmed frame of eight to twelve feet in height and spread. Evergreen through most winters, the foliage may brown at the edges where hard cold and drying wind combine, a nuance worth siting for at the northern edge of the range.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn spring, flat-topped cymes to six inches across open creamy white and lightly fragrant, a soft, early show against the dark leaves. The flowers give way to fruit that begins red and ripens glossy black by early fall, often holding on the branches into December and feeding birds through the first cold. Bees and other pollinators work the spring cymes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e'Decker', introduced by Decker Nursery in Ohio, was selected as the more cold-hardy of the Prague viburnums, which carries a handsome evergreen well into zone 5. Set the shrub as a fast privacy screen, an informal evergreen hedge, or a bold anchor in a mixed border, in sun to part shade and well-drained soil. Give room for the full eight to twelve feet, or prune after flowering to hold a height, and enjoy a shrub that brings structure, bloom, and berry across the year.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42058011246707,"sku":"VIBU-X-PRAG-DECK-01G","price":23.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Viburnumxpragense_Decker_Woodlanders2.png?v=1741260600"},{"product_id":"viburnum-lord-byron","title":"Viburnum ‘Lord Byron’","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hybrid that earned a name the hard way. Viburnum 'Lord Byron' is a Southern-bred cross of Viburnum obovatum, Walter's viburnum, with Viburnum rufidulum, the rusty blackhaw, created by the plantsman Paul Cox of the San Antonio Botanical Garden and named for his son.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNow for the Woodlanders chapter. This viburnum lived at the nursery for years like a minor character who keeps stealing the scene: unidentified, a little mysterious, and, in all honesty, entirely safe from being discarded, because every late winter the plant did something unforgivable and bloomed too beautifully. So we kept the shrub. We propagated the shrub. We made space for the shrub. A plant does not need a name to earn a place.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd then, thanks in part to Dave Creech's write-up and his steady support and generous photo documentation, the plant finally reintroduced itself properly as 'Lord Byron', a viburnum that has been quietly proving worth in Southern gardens for years, including at SFA Gardens in Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn late winter to early spring, 'Lord Byron' opens clusters of clean white flowers against a cloak of dark green, glossy foliage, an early-season signal that reads crisp rather than fussy. The upright, dense frame carries leaves intermediate between the two parents, and the plant stays essentially evergreen in warmer gardens. Grow the shrub as a large specimen, an informal hedge, or, with early training, a small ornamental tree.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOne honest note: the plant suckers. In the right setting that habit is a feature, a living hedge or a naturalistic edge; in a tight bed the shrub turns ambitious. Give room, or plan to keep the colony in check with mowing or thoughtful thinning. Some plants announce themselves at once; others earn a place, and then hand you a story worth telling.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdditional photos courtesy of Dave Creech and Houston Botanic Garden.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Woodlanders","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44291920593011,"sku":"VIBU-LORD-BYRO-01G","price":46.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0605\/7505\/5987\/files\/Viburnum_Lord_Byron_Woodlanders.heic?v=1770760060"}],"url":"https:\/\/woodlanders.net\/collections\/viburnum.oembed?page=2","provider":"Woodlanders","version":"1.0","type":"link"}