Viburnum Opulus Roseum In Winter

Viburnum x burkwoodii is a smaller type of viburnum 8 to 10 feet tall that inherited some of the wonderful smell of its parent. It has a rounded growth habit and can.

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Viburnum opulus roseum in winter

Emerging soft lime green the eye catching snowball blossoms change to pure white and often blush pink. Viburnum macrocephalum is a very large shrub it can reach 20 feet tall and wide with the largest flower heads up to eight inches in diameter among the different snowball bushes. Viburnum opulus roseum is a bushy deciduous shrub with pretty leaves shaped similarly to an acer and which turn shades of purple and red by the autumn.

Long often as much or more wide the base truncate the lobes pointed coarsely and irregularly toothed dark green and glabrous above more or less downy beneath. A large rounded shrub reaching 10 12. However nothing stood out against the winter gray so much as the bright red fruits of vibur num opulus a plant that ukrainians have long praised in song poem and prose as a visceral symbol of beauty and identity.

Originally known as v. Leaves three sometimes four or five lobed maple like 2 to 4 in. Considered to be an heirloom plant.

They emerge reddish tinged mature to dark green turn yellow to red purple in fall. Native to europe asia and north africa viburnum opulus is a multi stemmed decidu ous shrub. Less susceptible to aphid damage.

Blooms midspring bearing lace cap flowers to 4 inches across. Viburnum x bodnantense dawn hardy in usda zones 4 through 8 blooms in the winter with white and pink flowers. Across 7 cm packed with sterile flowers in late spring.

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