Ask-a-Dave's-Gardener: Viburnum\'s Dying - Advice on how much to water?, 1 by magnusver4

magnusver4 wrote:
[quote=\"ViburnumValley\"]I only see opposite arrangement of simple leaves in your second picture. Those look like a lot of Blackhaw Viburnum. They could be seedlings, or suckering stems from a parent plant.

Were there any recent soil disturbances in that area? Could you have cut off a parent stem/trunk? If so, this is a common result - many suckering stems from the root system of an established plant.[/quote]

If 2015 is recent, then yes there were recent major disturbances. This whole area was disturbed in 2015 when our house was built. So this picture is on the edge of our yard (grass area). Along this edge of the yard everything is starting to really take off. Sun is now shining on this area, before it was cleared there were larger trees (some larger ash trees now gone) and a lot of honeysuckle. So now the edge of our yard is starting to fill in with a combo of dogwood and blackhaws. I will take a look and see if there is a larger plant nearby. I have not cut any parent stems/trunk in that area either.

I am hoping they are blackhaws, since I do not want to remove these plants.

I could get more pics if that helps with the id? Or do you feel confident they are Viburnums?

My landscaper guy said they looked like pear trees, pointing to the orange top (see pic) of the plant start as typical to bradford pears? I am hoping they are Blackhaws.