Viburnum

"A garden without Viburnum is akin to life without music or art"-Dirr. He has a special fondness for them and so do we. In case you hadn’t heard, he just wrote a Viburnum book and it is excellent. We urge you to buy it, without a doubt, one of the best garden books in recent years. And no I’m not getting paid to plug it although a cutting or two would not be turned down. A large and diverse genus it contains some of the most useful and handsome flowering shrubs. For fragrance, only Daphne can rival them. Wonderful in fruit as well as in flower, the fruits come in a range of colors from yellow to red to black to blue and every shade in between. Birds and wildlife love them and indeed a few species make delicious jam or can be eaten out of hand. We are putting in a large mixed border of them to screen the house from the nursery and give us at least a bit of privacy. The fast growing ones are ideal for this. Heights can range from 18" to 30' trees. Actually they're a lot like potato chips, once you have one ya gotta have em all. Of the 150 or so species and hundreds of cultivars, we've selected an elite group for your gardening enjoyment. Your mission if you decide to accept it is to plant all of them. Viburnum leaf beetle is a pest in some areas but not here, we are completely free of it