It is a good quality native shrub that is mostly clean and neat. It can sucker some. Handsome, shiny, cherry-like leaves about 4" long or...Read More more. It often gets hit hard by mildew at the end of the season. If not, it often gets a good red fall color. Long handsome buds and young bark is smooth and shiny. Nice big flattish flower clusters in May bear blue-black fruit that is loved by birds in late summer and early Autumn. Some are sold by a good number of big nurseries so that it is occassionally found in landscapes, but it is not a well-known plant to the general public. Makes a good deciduous screen. Cantigny Park in Wheaton, Illinois has had several specimens in tree form with a single trunk and about 20 feet high.
I have seen them only occasionally as a small street tree in the Boston area. The Massachusetts Extension Service lists the lentago amo...Read Moreng native trees that grow best in the sun. Another common name that is not listed above is Sweet Viburnum. I'd like to know if there is another viburnum that can grow thirty feet tall.
Scott County, KY (Zone 5b) | January 2006 | neutral
This is a large shrub/small tree that is best used north of (colder) zone 6. It suffers in the heat/humidity of central KY, and often de...Read Morefoliates in the summer due to powder mildew susceptibility. Viburnum prunifolium and Viburnum rufidulum are much better choices for central KY and south.
Viburnum lentago performs much better north of the Ohio River, and fabulously in the upper midwest tier of states.
This is a large,upright,suckering,deciduous shrub which typically grows to 10-18 feet tall with a spread of 6-12 feet.Non-fragrant cluste...Read Morers of white flowers appear in May. Followed by green berries that turn a bluish-black in the fall and often persist into winter.The glossy,green leaves are 1 1/2" wide and up to 4" long.The berries are edible and may be eaten off the bush when ripe or used in jams and jellies.It's not unusual to see birds and other wildlife stopping by for a snack on the berries.Nanny goats apparently feed on the ripe berries(reportedly more so than billy goats),hence the common name.
It is a good quality native shrub that is mostly clean and neat. It can sucker some. Handsome, shiny, cherry-like leaves about 4" long or...Read More
I have seen them only occasionally as a small street tree in the Boston area. The Massachusetts Extension Service lists the lentago amo...Read More
This is a large shrub/small tree that is best used north of (colder) zone 6. It suffers in the heat/humidity of central KY, and often de...Read More
Very adaptable...birds love it.
This is a large,upright,suckering,deciduous shrub which typically grows to 10-18 feet tall with a spread of 6-12 feet.Non-fragrant cluste...Read More