Japanese Snowball Viburnum
Viburnum plicatum
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-8b Find Your Zone
Shrub Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 8-15′
Width at Maturity: 8-15′
Suggested Spacing: 8 feet for hedge; 20 feet or more for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Open, Rounded
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: White
Flower Size: 3″ size clusters of small flowers
Flowering Period: Mid to Late Spring
Flower Type: Single flowers in 3″ wide snowball like clusters
Fragrant Flowers: No
Foliage Color: Medium to Dark Green; Burgundy-Red in Fall
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries:
Berry Color:
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: Butterflies, Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer, Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect
Description
Japanese Snowball Viburnum is a strikingly beautiful large flowering shrub featuring abundant showy ball-shaped clusters of white flowers in spring and attractive, serrated, pointed dark green leaves that turn to burgundy-red in Fall. Reaching 10 to 15 feet in height and width, it can be grown as a large shrub or lower branches removed to form an attractive and colorful small specimen tree.
Landscape & Garden Uses
With an upright habit and rounded form 8 to 15 feet tall and wide depending on pruning, the Japanese Snowball Viburnum is ideal for use as a specimen or in groupings in landscape and flowering shrub borders and sunny to partially shade woodland borders. As this Viburnum grows taller, lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive small tree useful as a focal point specimen in landscape borders or home foundation plantings. A fine addition to white theme gardens, cut flower gardens, cottage gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs).
Suggested Spacing: 8 feet apart for hedge; 20 feet or more apart for space between plants
Growing Preferences
Japanese Snowball Viburnum is very easy to grow in moist but well drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. We suggest 5 hours or more of direct sunlight for best flowering. It prefers a loamy soil so amend heavy clay or poor soils with compost, bagged top soil or other organic matter. 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. Responds very well to pruning for shaping, size control and tree forming. Prune as needed immediately after flowering.
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