Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum 'Grandiflorum'

A large, sterile, snowball type maturing 8-10' tall and wide with a more tiered habit than the type.  White snowball flowers are larger and appear earlier than other f. plicatum and can be flushed with pink or a hint of apricot.  Leav…

Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum 'Kerns Pink'

A selection made in 1957 by Carl Kern at the Wyoming Nursery in Ohio.  An upright growing plicatum f. plicatum to 8-10' high and 6-8' wide, yet finer in texture and more delicate than the type.  Foliage is bronze tinged.  Flowers…

Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum 'Mary Milton'

An upright growing shrub reaching 8-10' high and 6' wide with reddish-bronze tinged new foliage.  Flowers are green-pink in bud, opening to beautiful soft pink carnation-like snowball flowers.  Flowers may fade to white upon maturity…

Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum 'Newport'

A dwarf and very comopact rounded plant maturing at 4-5' tall and wide.  Discovered as a chance seedling, it grows only one-half the size of its parent, including flower and leaf size.  A tidy, neat habit that rarely needs pruning.  …

Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum 'Pink Sensation'

A selection with snowball flowers emerging pink that turn white with maturity.  Emerging leaves have a distinct bronze tint, maturing green.  A 'Pink Sensation' planted near the entrance of the JC Ralston Arboretum, Chapel Hill, North…

Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum 'Popcorn'

An awesome sight in bloom.  This 8' tall, 8' wide rounded shrub is vigorous but tight in habit with leathery, dark green foliage.  Hundreds of 3" round popcorn ball flowers line every branch, virtually obscuring the foliage in the sp…

Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum 'Sawtooth'

Big and bold white snowball flowers in May contrasting well with attractive forest green foliage which is sawtooth serrated and deeply veined giving it excellence substance.  Even if this plant were grown only for its foliage, it would not be …

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum

Common Name: Doublefile Viburnum

Grows 8-10' high with a slightly wider spread due to its horizontal branching habit.  This tiered habit makes it a desirable element to softern vertical features and upright plants forms.  Flowers are white, non-fragrant, 2-4" fla…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Dart's Red Robin'

A broad spreading cultivar from Holland growing to about 8'.  Reported to grow to 5' but is probably underrated.  Profuse flowering with white tinged pink flowers borne in umbrella-shaped inflorescences giving way to an equally impres…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Igloo'

A wide spreading, yet compact, dome shaped plant selected from a seedling at Winterthur Gardens, Delaware in 1991.  V. plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mariesii' is on of the suspected parents.  Habit is full and dense right to the ground, so its …

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Lanarth'

Raised as a seedling by P.D. Williams of Lanarth, Cornwall before 1930.  A very fine form similar to V. plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mariesii' but somewhat larger and with larger ray (sterile) flowers.  Branches are produced in tiered…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Magic Puff'

A compact, rounded shrub growing 4-5' high and wide.  The inflorescence of white non-fragrant flowers in spring consists of inner fertile flowers and an outer ring of sterile flowers.  Very nice clean dark green foliage.  Fruit i…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Mariesii'

Very common in the trade.  Introduced by Maries from Japan in 1879 for Messrs. Veitch.  Grows 8-10' tall and wide with strong horizontally tiered branches.  Outer sterile florets up to 1¾" across.  The inflorescenc…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Molly Schroeder'

An outstanding pink flowering selection growing 8' tall and 5' wide with horizontal branching.  Inflorescence consists of an outer ring of sterile pink flowers with creamy-white veination with a darker cream throat.  Inner fertile flower …

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Nanum Semperflorens'

Common Name: Watatnabe Doublefile Viburnum

A small compact, rounded shrub growing 5 to 7' tall and as wide.  Flowers are white, typical of the species, but smaller.  Flowers on and off throughout the summer similar to V. plic. f. tom. 'Summer Snowflake'.  Differentiated from …

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Pink Beauty'

A handsome 8-10' shrub with a narrower width giving it an upright appearance.  Leaves, flowers, and overall appearance are generally smaller than other f. tomentosum.  Flowers are pink upon opening and darken to a deeper pink as they age.…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Shasta'

A broad, rounded shrub growing twice as wide as tall ( 6' x 10-12').  The result of a cross between a selected V. plic. f. tom. and V. plic. f. tom. 'Mariesii'.  Strong horizontal branching produces large 6" lacecap flowers in Ma…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Shoshoni'

A more dwarf, compact seedling of V. plic. f. tom. 'Shasta' with all th attributes of 'Shasta' but growing only ½ the size.  distinctive horizontal branching maturing 6' tall and 8' wide.  The result of a cross pollin…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'St. Keverne'

A more upright form of doublefile viburnum growing 10-12' tall but still maintaining a horizontally tiered habit.  Raised at St Keverne, Cornwall, England.  Flowers are a flat-topped to somewhat umbrella shaped cyme with a sterile out…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Summer Snowflake'

A large shrub reaching up to 12' but only ½ as wide, giving it an upright habit, but still maintaining strong horizontally tiered branching.  Begins blooming in May, then reblooms sporadically throughout the summer.  Leave…

Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum 'Weeping Magic'

This doublefile viburnum has prostrate to pendulous branching giving it a low mounding habit, maturing wider than it is tall.  Although there is no descriptive literature on this plant, based on rate of growth and current size and …

Viburnum x pragense

Common Name: Prague Viburnum

A hybrid cross between V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile made at the Prague Municipal Gardens, Czech Republic in 1955.  An attractive, fast growing shrub, growing to 10' tall and 8-10' wide giving it upright oval to oval-rounded.  The ve…

Viburnum x pragense 'Decker'

Similar in all respect to V. x pragense to the extent that there are no visible differences.  Introduced by Decker Nursery, Ohio as it was considered to be hardier.  Zone 5

Viburnum x Prairie Classic

Common Name: Prairie Classic Viburnum

Prairie Classic is a naturally occuring hybrid, originally observed in a seedling block of V. rufidulum.  Based upon physical characteristics and other viburnums blooming at the same time capable of pollinating, the other suspected …

Viburnum propinquum

A small shrubby evergreen listed by literature as maturing to 3' high and 3-5' wide, however, a large haystack-shaped specimen 10' high by 8' wide with tiered branching was sited by Michael Dirr at Hillier.  I believe this discrepancy is t…

Viburnum prunifolium

Common Name: Blackhaw Viburnum

An upright viburnum when young then becoming as wide as tall at maturity.  Branching is very stiff with lateral branching coming off of the main branching at 90° angles giving it what is referred to as a fish-bone pattern.  Can b…

Viburnum prunifolium 'Forest Rouge'

A selection made by Dan Moore at McKay Nursery, Wisconsin.  A large shrub or multi-stemmed or single stemmed tree with dense, upright-oval branching.  Stems on emerging new growth are dark red with yellow green foliage which turns glossy …

Viburnum prunifolium 'Ovation'

A new slower growing selection of blackhaw that is self scaffolding, forming a very tight and compact, upright, columnar structure that is perfect for screens or limited space areas.  Formal, very tight structure growing 10' tall and only 6' w…

Viburnum prunifolium 'Summer Magic'

This upright-rounded blackhaw is ideal as a specimen or small tree.  Introduced by Willoway Nursery of Ohio, it matures at 12-15' and 10-12' wide and is more compact than the species due to the fact that it does not exhibit the horizont…