Experience with Snowball Viburnum?
prairiemoon2 z6b MA
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ken_adrian Adrian MI cold Z5
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Looking to trade for snowball bush (viburnum opulus) in spring..
Comments (17)I think that I DID run the car over the V. opulus - great way to divide the plant! One of mine was a pup off an established shrub that had gotten in the way of a hose bibb and I had someone dig it out and he didn't know what to do with it so he left it sitting off the driveway (on soil) and about six months later when I got around to moving it to the compost pile, it had rooted in! You're dead right about zonal imbalances (like hormonal imbalances?) and no one should be shipping plants around once it warms up. I just explained our planting timing by way of illustration because it is so different than the majority of the country, and even zone 9 doesn't really explain what it's like here because we have so much ocean influence. We run in the high 70's/low 80's in summer with ocean breeze so your'e right, we don't have temps in the 90s unless it is a heat wave. So the best way to describe our weather is 'mild', which really doesn't describe any of the weather in z5,6,7,etc. We'll hope that PF finds the V. o. r. and yes, John, your wife will just love those flowers. They are pretty gorgeous when they first come out and they are that lovely shade of lime green. All this rapture about such a weedy shrub, but isn't it nice that we can find love in all the wrong places?...See MoreIs Snowball Bush a viburnum?
Comments (9)My mother has what we'd always been told was a snowball bush, but rather than being named for the blossoms it was called that because the berries basically looked like little snowballs. It apparently isn't happy where it is planted because it hasn't done much of anything and was always very straggly; the fact that my overly "helpful" cousin mowed it during one of his rabid mowing frenzies hasn't helped it a great deal, but it's valiantly sending up a few inches of new growth and I've scouted a new location and invested in fencing and posts to keep the zero-turn-radius mower from hell at bay... I don't recall what the blooms looked like, but the leaves are roundish (dontcha love the gardening techspeak?) and as I said before, the berries looked like fleshy white blueberries...from the pics I've seen of what everyone ELSE says is a snowball bush, they're not the same at all. Any ideas on what it might be? A little poking about online has me thinking maybe snowBERRY bush....??? And if it IS a snowberry could someone point me toward tips to help it flourish? Would settle for being directed to the appropriate forum; can take pics of what's left of it if there's a way to post pics to the site....See MoreSnowball tree - Viburnum cuttings.
Comments (16)Hi Bev and Dee, Thankyou for your input. I love the term 'shrubette' - never heard it before, and if this water idea fails I'll go out and buy some pantyhose and try it! I hope I'm forgiven for bringing up the subject of propagation on this forum, perhaps a bit off subject, but the only propagation forum I know of is based in US and they sometimes use strange terms that I can't understand! Well, Dee, the cuttings are looking healthy in the water, and yesterday a friend told me her mother went to change some flowers and water at Gran's graveside, only to find all the hibiscus stems had taken root in the water since she was last there, so she took them home and planted them in ordinary old soil from the garden, and they're thriving. Acting on that, I went out yesterday and took some hibiscus cuttings and put them in with the snowball cuttings, plus a few lantana Calypso cuttings, and a couple of Yesterday Today and Tomorrow's, so I'll let you know what eventuates. If and when they do take root, I'll dip the ends of them all in pure (no glucose added) honey, as I did this with a load of pellie cuttings last Tues., and they've nearly all developed strong roots, so that might be the answer. Apparently the honey provides food for the cuttings. Another little hint of mine (I'm probably completely wrong, but have a lot of success) is to take a cutting when in bud or flower. I like to believe that this gives the cuttings incentive to keep on growing or something. My only real bugbears to get going (besides the snowballs) are YTT (Brunsfelsia), diosma, pittosterum(sp), magnolia, the tassel-bush (Garrya?) and the fringe-flower. Oh, and the Pyramid Tree. I've a huge one down the back corner, have tried cuttings in every season and even planted some of its horrible, itchy seeds, to no avail. Any hints/suggestions will be very much appreciated. Cheers, Venice...See MoreQuestions about Snowball Viburnum 'Roseum'
Comments (5)frankly ... in my world.. warped as it is ... you plant Vs ... for a green sight block ... because for 99% of the summer.. thats all you have ... love it or leave it ... the flowers are an ephemeral bonus ... not something 'I' would choose this bush for .. but for a couple exceptions ... i have the variegated version.. a sublime color show ... the flowers.. en masse... make me want to puke ... horrid .. lol.. maybe thats why i think as i do above ... on the other hand.. i have mohawk.. the fragrant one ... to die for.. and a week or 2 of drop dead gorgeous scent ... ken...See MoreThyme2dig NH Zone 5
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