Fragrant Snowball Viburnum

Viburnum x carlcephalum

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6a-8b Find Your Zone

Shrub Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 6-10′

Width at Maturity: 6-10′

Growth Habit / Form: Open, Rounded

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: Pink Buds open to White flowers

Flower Size: 4 to 5″ diameter clusters.

Flowering Period: Spring Flowers

Flower Type: Single flowers in 5″ wide snowball like clusters

Fragrant Flowers: Yes

Foliage Color: Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Yes

Berry Color: Red

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun

Water Needs: Average, Low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Dry when established

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5 (Acid to Slightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect

Description

Perhaps our favorite of the fragrant cultivars, the Fragrant Snowball Viburnum, Viburnum carlcephalum, is prized for its intoxicating, fragrant white flowers that appear in 4 to 5 inch diameter snowball shaped clusters in spring. You can grow this one as a shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive small tree. To enjoy the fragrance and beautiful blooms plant this fragrant wonder near windows, patios, decks porches and other outdoor sitting and living spaces.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 6 to 10 feet tall and equally wide, the Fragrant Snowball Viburnum can be grown as a shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive small tree ideal for use as an eye-catching specimen or grouping in landscape and flowering shrub borders. Also useful to frame corners, accentuate entryways, or as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. A fine addition to fragrance gardens, white theme gardens, cut flower gardens, Viburnum gardens and cottage gardens.

Growing Preferences

Viburnum is very easy to grow in most any average, most but well drained soil and full sun to part shade. It prefers a loamy soil of average fertility. As with so many other ornamental plants, it does not like constantly soggy or wet conditions. Very drought tolerant when established and we’ve seen no serious pest or disease problems. Deer haven’t touched it in our gardens. For best flowering, at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day is suggested. Responds very well to pruning for shaping, size control and tree forming. Prune as needed immediately after flowering.

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