Dwarf Fragrant Viburnum

Plants tend to be leggy and best in a mixed borer where smaller plants can mask the bare stems. Handsome foliage carries this plant through the rest of the season.

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Dwarf fragrant viburnum

But compared to the full size version which reaches 8 to 10 feet tall and wide it is a miniature version. The 4 inch long leaves emerge bronzy green changing to dark green. The flowers start as pink buds and change to white blooms with a hint of the early pink color.

The aroma blends sweet and spicy. It is very easy to grow and perfect for foundations mass plantings and outer edge of water gardens. This variety can grow to 8 feet 2 m tall a formidable size for a small garden.

You need one of these. Fall color is a reddish purple. Fragrant viburnum is an old fashioned shrub grown for its highly sweet pinkish white flowers in early spring.

If you are a gardener with a smaller yard you won t be able to plant the koreanspice viburnum viburnum carlesii the shade tolerant shrub with intoxicatingly fragrant spring flowers. Dwarf american cranberrybush viburnum viburnum trilobum compactum might not sound too small growing 6 feet tall and wide. Spice girl viburnum offers dozens of pink flowers.

Blooms start as red buds that unfurl to reveal pink flowers that fade to white. First there are the flowers. Before forsythia before any shrubs in the garden.

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