Information About Viburnum

Virburnum, available in both evergreen and deciduous forms, is a popular shrub that offers many benefits for home gardeners. Growing viburnums include fragrant springtime blooms, attractive autumn and showy berries that welcome songbirds to your garden. These versatile shrubs are fun to grow and easy to get along with. The following information will help you plant, grow and care for viburnum shrubs.

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5 Viburnums With Showy White Flowers – Best Viburnums For Big White Blooms

By Tonya Barnett, (Author of FRESHCUTKY)

Viburnum is a beautiful flowering shrub for the home landscape. Click here if you're interested in the most common varieties of viburnum with white flowers.

Possumhaw Viburnum Plant Care: Growing Possumhaw Viburnum Shrubs

By Tonya Barnett, (Author of FRESHCUTKY)

Possumhaw viburnum shrubs are especially at home in a carefree natural planting. To learn more about this shrub, click here.

Growing Dwarf Viburnums – Learn About Small Viburnum Shrubs

By Teo Spengler

Viburnums are among the most popular shrubs for home gardens, providing many seasons of garden interest. However, due to the size these plants can grow, not every gardener has a space big enough to accommodate them. Click here for dwarf viburnum varieties.

Nannyberry Care – Learn How To Grow Nannyberries In The Landscape

By Teo Spengler

Nannyberry plants are large native tree-like shrubs native to the U.S. They have glossy foliage that turns red in fall as well as attractive fruit. For more information about nannyberry shrubs, or information on how to grow nannyberries, this article will help.

Viburnum Pest Control: Learn About Pests Affecting Viburnums

By Liz Baessler

Viburnums are a diverse group of flowering shrubs that are very popular in the garden. Unfortunately, they?re often preyed upon by a wide range of pests. Learn more about the insects affecting viburnums and how to go about controlling viburnum insect pests in this article.

Why Viburnum Leaves Are Curling: Reasons For Leaf Curl In Viburnums

By Mary H. Dyer, Credentialed Garden Writer

What causes viburnum leaf curl? When viburnum leaves are curling, there's a good chance that pests are to blame, and aphids are the usual suspects. Learn about treating viburnum leaf curl caused by aphids in the article that follows.

Guelder Rose Viburnums – How To Care For Guelder Rose Plants

By Liz Baessler

Guelder rose viburnums (Viburnum opulus) are deciduous shrubs or trees suited to smaller landscape settings. Learn more guelder rose information, like tips on guelder rose growing and how to care for a guelder rose viburnum in this article.

Yellow Leaves On Viburnums: Reasons For Viburnum Leaves Turning Yellow

By Mary H. Dyer, Credentialed Garden Writer

Often, pests or disease are to blame when a viburnum has yellow leaves. Sometimes, treating viburnums with yellow leaves simply involves a few changes in plant care. This article aims to help with that. Click here to learn more.

Leatherleaf Viburnum Care: Growing A Leatherleaf Viburnum

By Jackie Carroll

Are you looking for a showy shrub for a shady location where most shrubs fail to thrive? We may know just what you're looking for. The leatherleaf viburnum's creamy white blossoms never fail, even when the shrub is planted in the shade. Learn more here.

Laurustinus Plant Information: Tips On Growing Laurustinus Shrubs

By Teo Spengler

Laurustinus viburnum is a small evergreen hedge plant, native to the areas around the Mediterranean. It's definitely a shrub to consider planting if you live in USDA zone 8 or warmer. Click here for more laurustinus plant information.

Koreanspice Viburnum Care: Growing Koreanspice Viburnum Plants

By Liz Baessler

With its small size, dense growing pattern and showy flowers, Koreanspice viburnum is an excellent choice for a specimen shrub as well as border plant. So how do you go about growing this viburnum in your garden? Find more info on Koreanspice viburnum here.

Judd Viburnum Care – How To Grow A Judd Viburnum Plant

By Darcy Larum, Landscape Designer

With over 150 species of viburnum shrubs and heights between 2-25 feet (0.6-7.5 m.), there's a variety that can fit into any landscape. With so much variety, it may be hard to sort through the pros and cons of each viburnum. Judd viburnum plants have everything. Learn more here.

Blackhaw Tree Facts – Learn About Growing A Blackhaw Viburnum

By Teo Spengler

Wildlife will thank you if you plant Blackhaw viburnum in the landscape. You'll also get a joyful jolt of vibrant autumn color. For Blackhaw tree facts as well as tips on growing a Blackhaw viburnum, this article will help.

Mapleleaf Viburnum Information – Tips On Growing Mapleleaf Viburnums

By Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban Agriculturist

Mapleleaf viburnum shrubs are hardy additions to the landscape and work perfectly in planned native gardens. Click the following article to learn how to care for a Mapleleaf viburnum and what surprises you can expect from this plant.

David Viburnum Care – Tips On Growing David Viburnum Plants

By Mary H. Dyer, Credentialed Garden Writer

David viburnum is a showy evergreen shrub that displays attractive, glossy, blue-green foliage year round with clusters of small white flowers in spring and metallic blue berries later in the season. If this has piqued your interest, click here for more information.

Southern Arrowwood Shrub Care – How To Grow Southern Arrowwood Plants

By Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban Agriculturist

Southern Arrowwood viburnums have all the charm of their introduced cousins plus a hardiness to a variety of climates that makes them very useful in the landscape. As an added bonus, Southern Arrowwood shrub care is a breeze. Learn more here.

Low Growing Viburnums: Can You Use Viburnum As Groundcover

By Darcy Larum, Landscape Designer

Many of us gardeners have that one spot in our yards that is truly a pain to mow. Generally, a large go-to plant for trouble areas, low growing viburnums can be used as a ground cover in out-of-the-way sunny or shady spots. Learn more about them here.

Types Of Viburnum Plants: Choosing Varieties Of Viburnum For The Garden

By Liz Baessler

There are over 150 species of viburnum, as well as countless cultivars of viburnum. With so many varieties of viburnum available, where do you even begin? Click this article to learn about some of the common viburnum varieties and what sets them apart.

Rooting Viburnum Cuttings: How To Propagate Viburnum From Cuttings

By Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban Agriculturist

Propagating viburnum from cuttings is the most effective way to replicate the bush. A few techniques and tricks are necessary to enhance rooting and ensure your new plants thrive. Learn how to propagate viburnum from cuttings in this article.

Variegated Viburnum Plants: Tips On Growing Variegated Leaf Viburnums

By Mary H. Dyer, Credentialed Garden Writer

Most viburnums have glossy or dull green foliage, often with contrasting pale undersides. However, there are a few types of variegated leaf viburnums with splashy, mottled leaves. Learn more about three popular types of variegated viburnum in this article.

Japanese Snowball Care: Learn About Japanese Snowball Trees

By Teo Spengler

These large shrubs look like they could require a lot of maintenance, but Japanese snowball care is really quite easy. Click this article for more Japanese snowball information, including how to plant a Japanese snowball tree.

Sweet Viburnum Care: Growing Sweet Viburnum Bushes

By Teo Spengler

Growing sweet viburnum bushes adds the delightful element of fragrance to your garden. This member of the large viburnum family offers showy, snowy spring blossoms with a very appealing scent. For sweet viburnum information, click here.

How To Tell Snowball Bushes Apart: Is It A Snowball Viburnum Bush Or Hydrangea

By Jackie Carroll

The problem with using common plant names is that similar-looking plants often wind up with similar names. For instance, "snowball bush" can refer to a viburnum or a hydrangea. Find out the difference between viburnum and hydrangea snowball shrubs in this article.

Viburnum Leaf Beetle Lifecycle: How To Treat For Viburnum Leaf Beetles

By Teo Spengler

Leaf beetles can skeletonize viburnum leaves quickly and efficiently. However, getting rid of viburnum leaf beetles is far from easy. How to treat viburnum leaf beetles? Click this article for information on viburnum leaf beetle control.

Viburnum Hedge Spacing: How To Grow A Viburnum Hedge In Your Garden

By Teo Spengler

All viburnum shrubs are easy care, and some have fragrant spring flowers. Creating a viburnum hedge isn't very difficult. If you want to know how to grow a viburnum hedge, then this article will help get you started.

Brown Viburnum Leaves: Why Leaves Turn Brown On Viburnum

By Teo Spengler

Sometimes the plant does have disease problems that cause brown viburnum leaves. Why do viburnum leaves turn brown? Click this article for information about the different reasons you might see brown leaves on viburnum plants.

Diseases Affecting Viburnum: Learn About Viburnum Disease Treatment

By Bonnie L. Grant, Certified Urban Agriculturist

There are more than 150 species of Viburnum with many available for problem areas of the garden. Plants that are not well taken care of can occasionally develop viburnum diseases, primarily fungal issues. Learn more in this article.

Container Grown Viburnums: Caring For Potted Viburnum Shrubs

By Liz Baessler

Viburnum is a plant for all seasons that never fails to disappoint. But can you grow viburnum plants in pots? Find more information about growing viburnum in containers and caring for potted viburnum shrubs in this article.

Highbush Cranberry Plants: Caring For American Cranberry Shrubs

By Jackie Carroll

It might surprise you to learn that the American highbush cranberry isn't a member of the cranberry family. It is actually a viburnum, and it has many features that make it an ideal edible landscape shrub. Click here for American cranberry bush information.

What Are Viburnum Borers: Learn About The Control Of Viburnum Borer

By Jackie Carroll

Viburnum borers cause serious damage to shrubs in the viburnum family. Learn to identify these insect pests and eliminate them from the landscape with the viburnum borer treatment tips in this article. Click here for more info.

Viburnum Problems: Why Won’t My Viburnum Bush Flower

By Kristi Waterworth

Their many shapes and sizes make viburnum shrubs ideal for practically any landscape. Non-flowering viburnums can be a huge disappointment, however. Learn how to fix blooming issues in this article.

Viburnum Pruning – How And When To Prune Viburnum

By Nikki Tilley, Author of The Bulb-o-licious Garden

On average, viburnum shrubs need relatively little pruning. However, it never hurts to practice occasional viburnum pruning each year to maintain shape and overall beauty. Learn more about pruning in this article.

Caring For Viburnum Flowering Shrub

By Nikki Tilley, Author of The Bulb-o-licious Garden

With interesting foliage, attractive and fragrant flowers, showy berries and numerous varieties to choose from, viburnum makes an exceptional addition to nearly any landscape. Read here for growing info.

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