Plant: Pragense - Viburnum
Lily of the Valley / Pieris · Viburnum x pragense
Was $28.00
Size: 3 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
A fast growing broadleaf evergreen viburnum forming an erect, rounded shrub 8 to 12 feet tall and wide, clothed in shiny, corrugated elliptical leaves with hairy undersides. Pink buds open to lightly fragrant creamy white flowers on flat topped cymes 3 to 6 inches across in March and April, followed by drupes that ripen red then glossy black and hold into winter. It grows in clay, loam or sand in sun to part shade with moist but well drained soil, is mildly deer resistant and makes a rapid screen or hedge. Butterflies work the flowers and birds take the fruit.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 12 ft tall and 12 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5a-8b
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
A fast growing broadleaf evergreen viburnum forming an erect, rounded shrub 8 to 12 feet tall and wide, clothed in shiny, corrugated elliptical leaves with hairy undersides. Pink buds open to lightly fragrant creamy white flowers on flat topped cymes 3 to 6 inches across in March and April, followed by drupes that ripen red then glossy black and hold into winter. It grows in clay, loam or sand in sun to part shade with moist but well drained soil, is mildly deer resistant and makes a rapid screen or hedge. Butterflies work the flowers and birds take the fruit.
- Flowers
- Pink buds open creamy white on lightly fragrant, flat topped cymes 3 to 6 inches across in March and April.
- Foliage
- Simple, opposite, shiny elliptical evergreen leaves 2 to 4 inches long with serrate margins, a corrugated surface and hairy undersides.
- Fruit
- Drupes that ripen red and finally turn glossy black, displayed in fall and persisting into winter.
- Pruning
- Occasional pruning encourages density. Viburnums generally respond to selective thinning cuts in early spring to regulate height and spread.
