Viburnum

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

Hardiness

Zones 5–7

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.

Hardiness

Zones 4–8

Light

Full Sun / Part Shade

Height

8–10 ft.

Spread

8–10 ft.

Bloom

White

Plant type

Shrub

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.

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Height

7–10 ft.

Spread

5–6 ft.

Bloom

Orange

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.

Hardiness

Zones 7–9

Light

Part Shade

Height

3–5 ft.

Spread

4–5 ft.

Bloom

White

Plant type

Shrub

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.

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Light

Full Sun / Part Shade

Height

10–12 ft.

Spread

10–12 ft.

Bloom

White

Plant type

Shrub

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)

Hardiness

Zones 5–8

Height

6–10 ft.

Spread

6–10 ft.