Sun Needs:  Full to Mostly Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun

With an upright habit and rounded form 8 to 15 feet tall and wide depending on pruning, the Japanese Snowball Viburnum is ideal for use as a specimen or in groupings in landscape and flowering shrub borders and sunny to partially shade woodland borders. As this Viburnum grows taller, lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive small tree useful as a focal point specimen in landscape borders or home foundation plantings. A fine addition to white theme gardens, cut flower gardens, cottage gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Suggested Spacing: 8 feet apart for hedge; 20 feet or more apart for space between plants

Growing Preferences

Japanese Snowball Viburnum is very easy to grow in moist but well drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. We suggest 5 hours or more of direct sunlight for best flowering. It prefers a loamy soil so amend heavy clay or poor soils with compost, bagged top soil or other organic matter. As with so many other ornamental plants, it does not like constantly soggy or wet conditions. Very drought tolerant when established and we've seen no serious pest or disease problems. Deer haven't touched it in our gardens. Responds very well to pruning for shaping, size control and tree forming. Prune as needed immediately after flowering.

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