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Article by: Geoff Bryant Viburnums are related to the honeysuckles, so it should come as no surprise that many of them have fragrant flowers. , Garden Pond Construction But that's not all they have in their favour. No, this genus includes plants , Garden Pond Construction for all seasons , Growing Organic! Herbs, Flowers and Fruit and all reasons; foliage, flower, , Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden autumn , Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden colour, scent, groundcover, shrub , Wooden Garden Benches or small tree, , Control Weeds Effectively In Your Garden evergreen or deciduous, it's all there among the 120-odd species and the many hybrids and cultivars. Indeed, they're so variable that it would be quite possible to have an interesting garden , Bird Baths in Your Yard of viburnums alone. Although viburnums can be found over much of the temperate northern hemisphere and even South America, most of the common plants , Design Your Own Rose Garden in our gardens, , Do It Yourself Landscape Design - Where To Begin with the exceptions of the Laurustinus (Viburnum tinus) and the Guelder Rose , Patio Furniture Accessories (Viburnum opulus), occur naturally in temperate Asia or are derived from the species of that area. About the only drawback with viburnums is that because they are so adaptable and easy to grow, , Accentuate Your Home with an Address Plaque they seem to have suffered from the 'familiarity breeds contempt' syndrome that sees common plants, , Bonsai Care: What You Need to Know however attractive and useful, relegated to the lower divisions of the garden , Hydroponics ing - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (Part 12) H2O2 league in favour of something more 'exciting'. Well, don't fall , Garden Pond Construction into that trap - every garden , Lawn Mower Safety needs at least one viburnum. FoliageWhile the obvious division in the genus is between the evergreen and deciduous types, it's not quite that clear-cut. Some of the more popular plants , Wooden Garden Benches are hybrids between evergreen and deciduous species and are semi-evergreen. This can actually be an advantage because they retain enough foliage to not look bare over winter , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer while also developing vivid autumn , Bird Baths in Your Yard tones in the leaves that fall. , The history of the gnome. The very popular Viburnum × burkwoodii is the best example of this behaviour. The foliage varies, but is in most cases a pointed elliptical shape and deeply veined. Some of the deciduous species, such as Viburnum opulus and Viburnum dentata, have lobed, somewhat maple-leaf-like foliage. Variegated foliage is not common, but where it does occur, the patterns and colours , Growing African Violets in Natural Light can be striking. The variegated form of Viburnum tinus is very popular.FlowersViburnum flowers , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest are nearly always white , Growing Hibiscus or pale pink, , Hydroponic Plant Systems - What, No Dirt? but within that limited colour , Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas range is found a huge variety of blooms. Although the individual flowers , Hydroponic Plant Systems - What, No Dirt? are small, they're massed in heads that in some types are very large indeed. Most often the flowers , Planning the Vegetable Patch are all fertile, but some species have hydrangea-like flower , Garden Delights For Midsummer heads in which small clusters of fertile flowers , Landscape Photography & Painting are surrounded by large sterile ray florets. Cultivars have been raised with flowerheads entirely composed of sterile flowers. , Design Your Own Rose Garden A sterile Guelder Rose , The Truth About Mosquitos and Water Gardens (Viburnum opulus 'Roseum' [syn. 'Sterile']) in full flower , Patio Furniture Accessories often droops under the weight of its huge flower , Greenscapes: Energy Efficient Landscaping heads. Although spring , Do It Yourself Landscape Design - Where To Begin is the main flowering season, , Maintaining Your Landscaped Yard many of the most fragrant viburnums start to bloom in winter, , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (part 13) Oxygen or even late autumn. , Giving Seeds What They Need In Storage Because their flowers , Growing Hibiscus aren't brightly coloured and insects are fewer in winter, , How to Win the War Against Slugs and Snails they presumably use scent as a means to attract from a greater distance those pollinators that are around. Some, such as Viburnum × burkwoodii are rarely without a few flowers. , Stone Garden BenchesFruitIn all cases, except for the sterile cultivars, the flowers , Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden are followed by berry-like drupes. While usually interestingly coloured, the drupes aren't always show, though when they are, they can be a real feature. , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (Part 12) H2O2 The steel-blue fruits , Should You Hire a Landscape Designer? of Viburnum davidii are very distinctive and the black drupes of Viburnum grandiflorum are particularly large, but my favourite is the so-called High-bush Cranberry (Viburnum trilobum), which covers itself with bright red fruit , Accentuate Your Home with an Address Plaque in late summer , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (part 13) Oxygen and autumn. , Growing African Violets in Natural Light It seems that just about any plant , Design Your Own Rose Garden with showy red berries gets called a cranberry, but although the fruit , The Truth About Mosquitos and Water Gardens is edible and can be used as a substitute for cranberry, it isn't the real thing. For the record, the real cranberry, the one of jelly fame, is Vaccinium macrocarpon, a plant , Growing Hibiscus more closely related to rhododendrons than viburnums.CultivationThere isn't much to say here; viburnums are easy. Except for all but a few in the very coldest of New Zealand gardens, , Design Your Own Rose hardiness isn't a problem; they're not fussy about soil , Garden Pond Liners type; most will grow , Bonsai Trees - Our Own Little Forest perfectly well in sun , Growing African Violets in Natural Light or part shade and some will grow , Composting for Kids in very dark corners. Good drainage helps but they will tolerate soil , Patio Furniture Accessories that's damp for a while. Success with viburnums is not so much a matter of getting them to grow , Plastic & Resin Patio Furniture – What You Don’t Know but directing and managing the growth they make. Although viburnums are plants , A Waste of Packaged Gold with an in-built resistance to formal shaping, try to establish a good framework of main branches when the plants , Plastic & Resin Patio Furniture – What You Don’t Know are young or they may develop into a mass tangled twigs rather than neat bushes. As soon as possible after flowering, , Design Your Own Rose Garden thin out any congested or weak stems and shorten back the main branches. There's nothing complicated here, it's just matter of letting more light , Hibiscus Flowers and air , Sunflowers into the centre of the bush and directing the plant's energy , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys into productive wood , Patio Furniture Accessories rather than spindly growth. If this is done for the first five years or so, you should have well-shaped, heavy flowering plants. , Growing Organic! Herbs, Flowers and FruitWhat's availableThere are many viburnums out there but garden , Hydroponics ing - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (Part 12) H2O2 centres tend to be rather uninspired in their selection, sticking pretty much to the tried and true. However, pester your local garden , Flower Bulbs: Nature's Greatest Gift centre enough and they should be able to get hold of any of the following.Viburnum bitchiuenseFound in southern Japan and Korea, this 3m tall deciduous shrub , The Truth About Mosquitos and Water Gardens is beautiful , Bonsai Plant Care: What You Need to Know in its own right while also being a parent of several attractive hybrids. It has large, strongly fragrant pink flowers , Best Florists Online that fade to white. , Landscape Photography & Painting They open in spring , Patio Furniture Accessories and are followed by black drupes.Viburnum × bodnantense (Viburnum farreri × Viburnum grandiflorum)A hybrid between two Chinese deciduous species, this 2.5m tall bush has rounded bright green , How to Care for Long Stem Roses leaves and small clusters of white flowers , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys with a faint pink , Should You Hire a Landscape Designer? tint. The flowers , Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas are very fragrant and appear from late winter , Lawn Mower Safety to early spring, , Garden Pond Liners very fragrant.Viburnum × burkwoodii (Viburnum carlesii × Viburnum utile)Viburnum carlesii is deciduous and Viburnum utile is evergreen, so in the spirit of compromise, their 3m tall offspring is semi-evergreen. Its rounded, bright green , 6 Factors that Directly Decide the Landscaping Design of a Home Garden leaves have greyish undersides and in autumn , Bird Baths in Your Yard those that fall , Design Your Own Rose Garden develop intense yellow, orange and red tones before dropping. In mild areas the flowers , Creating Cutting Gardens open from late winter, , Composting for Kids elsewhere they appear in spring. , Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden They are white, , Bonsai Plant Care: What You Need to Know opening from pink buds , The history of the gnome. and are carried in ball-shaped clusters in spring. , Patio Furniture Accessories Their fragrance can scent the entirety of a small garden. , Greenscapes: Energy Efficient Landscaping Several cultivars are grown, of which the compact 'Anne Russell' is probably the most popular.Viburnum × carlcephalum (Viburnum carlesii × Viburnum macrocephalum forma keteleeri)Sometimes called the Korean Spice Viburnum, this deciduous hybrid grows , Control Weeds Effectively In Your Garden to around 2.5m tall and its flowers , How to Win the War Against Slugs and Snails really do have a spicy fragrance. They open in spring, , Creating Cutting Gardens the first blooms being pink , Flower Bulbs: Nature's Greatest Gift while the later flowers , Maintaining Your Landscaped Yard tend towards white-flushed-pink. The flower , Greenscapes: Energy Efficient Landscaping heads are up to 15cm across and complement the large, rather glossy leaves.Viburnum carlesiiAt first sight this native of Korea and Japan resembles the more common Viburnum × burkwoodii, which is not surprising as it one of that hybrid's parents. However, it is fully deciduous and a more compact plant, , Control Weeds Effectively In Your Garden rarely exceeding 1.8m tall. Its flowers, , Composting for Kids in ball-shaped clusters, pink , How to Care for Long Stem Roses in bud , A Waste of Packaged Gold opening to white , Garden Delights For Midsummer in spring, , Flower Bulbs: Nature's Greatest Gift are very fragrant. There are quite a few cultivars of which 'Aurora' (flowers in various shades of red pink , Gardening Sentiments and white) and 'Cayuga' (orange autumn , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys foliage) are the most popular. Others, such as the widely grown 'Chesapeake' are hybrids with Viburnum utile.Viburnum davidiiWhile capable of growing , Stone Garden Benches to 1.5m tall, this western Chinese evergreen species is more commonly seen as a mounding groundcover. It has bright mid green, , Camellias glossy, heavily veined leathery leaves up to 15cm long that overlap to form a dense foliage cover. Small clusters of white flowers , Sowing an Annual Border open from late winter , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer to mid-spring and are followed by steel blue , The Truth About Mosquitos and Water Gardens drupes.Viburnum dentatumKnown as Arrowwood because of its use for that purpose by native Americans, this large deciduous shrub , Concrete Curb Landscaping or small tree , Growing Hibiscus has rather unexciting greenish white flowers , A Waste of Packaged Gold and is often rather an untidy grower. However, this eastern North American species comes into its own in autumn , Wooden Garden Benches as the black drupes ripen and the foliage develops vivid red tones.Viburnum erubescensThis early summer-flowering, deciduous or semi-evergreen shrub , 6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark: A Tip From The Garden Center Nursery is native to the Himalayas and found in mountainous areas as far south as Sri Lanka. The flowers , Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas are white , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (part 13) Oxygen flushed with pale pink , How to Win the War Against Slugs and Snails and are followed by red fruits , Control Weeds Effectively In Your Garden that blacken when ripe.Viburnum farreriAlthough less common than the hybrids raised from it, this 3m tall, northern Chinese, deciduous species is well worth growing , Hibiscus Flowers for its very fragrant pink-tinted white flowers , How to Care for Long Stem Roses that open from mid-winter. If pollinated the flowers , Patio Furniture Accessories develop into red fruit , Garden Pond Liners that blackens when ripe.Viburnum japonicaLike V. davidii, this evergreen shrub , Should You Hire a Landscape Designer? is most often seen used as a large-scale groundcover, though it's capable of growing , Gypsum Valuable Input for Agriculture well over 1m tall. A native of Japan, it has deep green, , How to Win the War Against Slugs and Snails glossy leaves and bronze new growth. Loose clusters of white flowers , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys in late spring , Stone Garden Benches are followed by red drupes. Regular trimming after flowering , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys will keep it compact.Viburnum lantanaThe Wayfaring Tree, , Composting for Kids a species widespread in Eurasia, is a deciduous, sometimes tree-like shrub , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys with heads of rather dull creamy-white flowers , The history of the gnome. in spring. , Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden It is grown more for its fruit, , Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas which is red ageing to black, and its foliage. The leaves are attractive at all stages, starting out deep green , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (Part 12) H2O2 and velvety, aging to dark green , Boundaries and Rooms in Your Garden fine hairs coating their undersides, then developing gold and russet tones in autumn , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer before falling.Viburnum opulusFound from Europe and North Africa to Central Asia, the Guelder Rose , Greenscapes: Energy Efficient Landscaping is a large deciduous shrub , How to Care for Long Stem Roses with mid green, , Maintaining Your Landscaped Yard deeply lobed, maple-like leaves that redden in autumn. , Bird Baths in Your Yard Rounded heads of white flowers , Wooden Garden Benches in spring , Sowing an Annual Flower Border are followed in late summer , Hydroponic Plant Systems - What, No Dirt? by red fruit. , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (Part 12) H2O2 The bark contains a glucoside, viburnine, that has uses in herbal medicine, particularly in the control of spasms and cramps. 'Roseum' (syn. 'Sterile') is a cultivar with large heads of all-sterile flowers. , Growing Organic! Herbs, s and Fruit It is known as the snowball tree , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (part 13) Oxygen because of the size and colour , Growing Hibiscus of its flowerheads and is far more widely grown than the species.Viburnum plicatumFrom China and Japan, this deciduous shrub , Landscape Photography & Painting grows to around 3m tall and has rounded, mid green, , Best Florists Online hazel-like leaves with serrated edges. Flattened clusters of white flowers , Design Your Own Rose Garden in open in spring , Best Florists Online and may be followed by red fruit , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction to Hydroponics Gardening for Beginners (Part 12) H2O2 that blackens when ripe. The tiered branches are tiered make this species very distinctive and are a feature , Sunflowers that is particularly apparent in the cultivar 'Mariesii'. 'Rosacea' is a cultivar with bronze young foliage and pink-tinted, all-sterile flowers , Camellias in large heads.Viburnum rhytidophyllumWhile this late spring- and summer-flowering Chinese species has reasonably attractive heads of creamy-white blooms, it's really a foliage plant. , Garden Delights For Midsummer The leaves are up to 20cm long and very heavily textured. The upper surfaces are slightly glossy and the undersurfaces are heavily coated in a grey to tan felt. 'Variegatum' is a cultivar with gold-splashed foliage. If the flowers , Accentuate Your Home with an Address Plaque interest you, look for 'Roseum', which has pinkish red blooms.Viburnum tinusOnce one of the most popular hedging plants, , Maintaining Your Landscaped Yard though not so common now, the Laurustinus is a 3m tall, evergreen shrub , Composting for Kids from southern Europe and North Africa. It has leathery, bark olive green , Giving Seeds What They Need In Storage and in late winter , Patio Furniture Accessories and spring , Stone Garden Benches puts on a good display white flowers , Hydroponic Plant Systems - What, No Dirt? that often develop pink , Growing African Violets in Natural Light tints. Variegated foliage cultivars often have brighter pink flowers. , Bulbs: Nature's Greatest GiftViburnum trilobumAs described earlier, the High-bush Cranberry is a 2.5m tall, deciduous North American shrub. , Growing and Caring for Rhododendrons and Azaleas It has lobed, maple-like leaves that often turn bright red in autumn. , Growing Hibiscus Flat , Gardening Sentiments heads of white flowers , Bonsai Plant Care: What You Need to Know open in spring , 6 Indoor Plants That Love The Dark: A Tip From The Garden Center Nursery and large clusters of very bright red berries in late summer , Plastic & Resin Patio Furniture – What You Don’t Know to autumn. , Hydroponics Gardening - An Introduction To Hydroponics Gardening For Beginners (part 13) Oxygen It is one of the best hardy shrubs , Creating Cutting Gardens for colour , Landscape Photography & Painting and quantity of fruit. , Growing Hibiscus****** A little searching, especially through mail order catalogues, will yield quite a few more species, hybrids and cultivars. Or you could try propagating your own. The species may be raised from seed, , Kill 'em or Cure 'em : Moving Houseplants Outside for the Summer which is usually best stratified, but hybrids and cultivars must be propagated vegetatively, most commonly by semi-ripe cuttings. I am a garden , Growing Organic! Herbs, Flowers and Fruit book author and horticultural photographer based in Christchurch, New Zealand. I run a stock photo library called Country, Farm , Hibiscus Flowers and Garden , Hedge Trimmers Are Tools Not Toys (http://www.cfgphoto.com). This article may be re-published provided this information , Growing African Violets in Natural Light is published with it and is clearly visible. |
  
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