Excellent addition to the landscape for those seeking early season interest. Fragrant pinkish tubular blooms appear for a long time throu...Read Moreghout late winter. Like all viburnums blooms appear on old wood which can be clipped and brought indoors to enjoy the wonderful scent. Vigorously growing shrub also has deeply veined leaves and reddish cast to it's bark which adds interest throughout the rest of the growing season.
I bought a lovely one last spring and it died by the fall, in spite of everything I tried to save it. I got it at a local nursery. Now,...Read More I asked about it at the nursery that I usually go to, for all my trees and shrubs and that always has wonderful plants and good advice. They told me that "Dawn" was the most sickly and least likely to succeed of the bodnant Viburnums. They advised getting "Aberconway", which I did. It's not on Dave's Garden yet, and I will add it after having watched it for a year to see how it grows.
In mild winters this blooms well though intermittently during late mild spells. In other years, the flower buds are mostly blasted. (Bost...Read Moreon, MA Z6a) Sometimes its flowering waits till early spring. I've also watched a shrub in the Arnold Arboretum dwindle successively over several winters.
The habit is upright and sparingly branched. As a specimen, it's rather gaunt. It would look better integrated into a shrub border, or spaced about 4' apart. In eastern Massachusetts, it doesn't seem to get more than about 7' tall. Flowering is best in full sun.
In fine gardening circles, this is a Currently Fashionable Plant. I think this shrub has been oversold in the horticultural press, due entirely to its winter flowering. I suspect that it performs much better in the British Isles and the Pacific Northwest, where summers are cool and winters are mild, than it does in the East. Here it should be planted in a sheltered microclimate, and valued more as a not-too-reliable source for cutting branches to be used in winter arrangements than as an asset in the landscape.
It is April 19 and this beautiful shrub is in full bloom with its fragrant pink flowers. Most descriptions of this plant say it is winte...Read Morer blooming, but for me in my zone 6 garden it's the first flowering "tree" in the spring, flowering along with Forsythia, Hamamelis, and Hellebores.
Winter of 2011/12 in Victoria, BC has been the most beautiful, mild and sunny than any in my 15 year history here. I have 2 of these larg...Read Moree shrubs in my garden and their perfume has filled my garden all winter. They too are loving this mild weather and have never had so many blooms before. The one in my back shade garden is easily 20 ft tall at its furthest reaching tips and tolerates the dry shade spot well. I would not do without it even though the leaves smell of petrol when pruned. The one in my front garden grows right up against the North wall and fills the area walking up the steps to our porch. Again deep shade, dry as a bone and indestructible. Both of these shrubs do get good morning sun. I do empty my gold fish bowl water into it so it does get good nutrients and the one in the back entirely obscures our Tumble Composter which drips its tea onto the roots all summer and winter.
Here in zone 5a this shrub has performed well through a long and very cold winter. There wasnt any resulting dieback. Leaves smell lik...Read Moree burnt rubber.
This remarkable plant keeps my winter garden going; in early January it has been blooming already for 6 weeks and shows no signs of stopp...Read Moreing (zone 8, OR). I have it planted in the middle of a mixed border that I see from above through a picture window. Underplant it with early daffodils and crocus; I'm trying to get some creeping thyme to fill in around for the summer as well.
Blooms through the winter months and adds pleasant colour to a dull landscape. Deeply veined foliage is attractive during the summer mont...Read Morehs. Cutting propagation was relatively easy - taken in summer to fall in flats with bottom heat. Blooms can become mushy in winter rains.
St. John's, NL (Zone 5b) | January 2005 | positive
This is perhaps the mostly widely available cultivar of the Bodnant Viburnum. Flowers open pale to medium pink but age to a rosy-pink. ...Read MoreThe mix of pink shades on any given flower cluster is very attractive. Plants bloom throughout winter and spring and are higly fragrant. Listed as hardy to zone 6, I have has mine for 8 years in zone 5b with no problems. With the more severe winters in Newfoundland, mine does not bloom until April-May, the same time as the February Daphne. Together, both make my garden very fragrant throughout April!
Excellent addition to the landscape for those seeking early season interest. Fragrant pinkish tubular blooms appear for a long time throu...Read More
I bought a lovely one last spring and it died by the fall, in spite of everything I tried to save it. I got it at a local nursery. Now,...Read More
In mild winters this blooms well though intermittently during late mild spells. In other years, the flower buds are mostly blasted. (Bost...Read More
It is April 19 and this beautiful shrub is in full bloom with its fragrant pink flowers. Most descriptions of this plant say it is winte...Read More
Winter of 2011/12 in Victoria, BC has been the most beautiful, mild and sunny than any in my 15 year history here. I have 2 of these larg...Read More
Here in zone 5a this shrub has performed well through a long and very cold winter. There wasnt any resulting dieback. Leaves smell lik...Read More
This remarkable plant keeps my winter garden going; in early January it has been blooming already for 6 weeks and shows no signs of stopp...Read More
Blooms through the winter months and adds pleasant colour to a dull landscape. Deeply veined foliage is attractive during the summer mont...Read More
This is perhaps the mostly widely available cultivar of the Bodnant Viburnum. Flowers open pale to medium pink but age to a rosy-pink. ...Read More