Summer Snowflake Viburnum

Viburnum plicatum var. tomentosum

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub or Small Tree

Height at Maturity: 8-10′

Width at Maturity: 6-8′

Spacing: 5-6′ apart for solid hedge; 12’+ apart for space between plants.

Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Semi-Pyramidal

Growth Rate: Fast

Flower Color: White

Flower Size: 4″ clusters

Flowering Period: Spring, Summer, and Fall!

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Yes

Berry Color: Red

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun

Water Needs: Average, Low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Dry when established

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5 (Acid to Slightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect

Description

Summer Snowflake Viburnum is one of a very few ornamental shrubs that blooms all season long in our gardens, producing a flush of beautiful, white, lacecap-like flower clusters every month from April through October! Attractive bright red berries in late summer are enjoyed by the birds and are followed by wine-red fall foliage. The specimen in our gardens has taken on a natural form similar to that of the native dogwood tree. In spring, when in full bloom, visitors to the gardens who see it from a distance mistake it for a dogwood…until upon closer inspection they see the beautiful lacecap flowers.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 8 to 10 feet tall and 6 to 8 feet wide at maturity, the Summer Snowflake Viburnum can be grown as a large shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive small tree ideal for use as an eye-catching specimen or groupings in landscape and flowering shrub borders. Also useful to frame corners of homes and entryways or as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings . A welcome addition to cut flower gardens, white theme gardens, wildlife gardens, and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 5 to 6 feet apart for solid hedge; 12 feet or more apart for space between plants.

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Viburnum variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Viburnum is very easy to grow in most any moist but well drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. It prefers a loamy soil rich in organic matter. As with so many other ornamental plants it does not like constantly soggy or wet conditions. Quite drought tolerant when established and we’ve seen no serious pest or disease problems. Deer haven’t touched it in our gardens. For best flowering, at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day is suggested. Responds very well to pruning for shaping, size control and tree forming. Prune as needed immediately after flowering.

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Plant came shipped happy and in bloom. Can’t wait to see it when mature! Looks great and shipping was done well. Will order from wilsonbros again.——————————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come! Thanks for the kind words and great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

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I was very impressed with how the 2 plants I ordered were packaged! Both plants arrived healthy and with the start of flowers. Once they were planted they actually started to bloom. I am confident that they will survive and thrive and looking forward to seeing them bloom through out the growing season in the years to come!————————————-We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I was very pleased not only with the excellent service and communication but with the quality and size of the shrub I ordered.————————————–WBG Reply: Hi Ruth, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Summer Snowflake Viburnum. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens

Fabulous plant! Arrived in great condition. Very well packed. Plant exceeded my expectations in height, fullness and condition. Would highly recommend this grower, as all the plants I have received have been exceptional.——————————WBG Reply: Hi Margaret, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Summer Snowflake Viburnum. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy it for years to come!
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens