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Popcorn Snowball Viburnum Bush - 1 Gallon Pot

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Popcorn Snowball Viburnum Bush – 1 Gallon Pot

Original price was: $36.97.Current price is: $25.88.

SKU: D2LSC 0981108201 Categories: PLANTS & TREES, SHRUBS & BUSHES, Snowball Bushes

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Popcorn Viburnum

Viburnum plicatum f. pilcatum ‘Popcorn’

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5a-8b Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 6-8′

Width at Maturity: 5-7′

Spacing: 5′ for solid hedge; 10’+ for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Vase Shape

Growth Rate: Moderate, Fast

Flower Color: Light Green fades to White

Flower Size: 8-12″ clusters

Flowering Period: Spring, Fall

Flower Type: Single

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: NA

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

Water Needs: Average, Low when established

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained Moist to Dry when established

Soil pH: 5.5 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Heat, Insect

Description

There just aren’t too many flowering shrubs that rival the magnificence of a snowball viburnum in full bloom, and like its Chinese cousin, the Popcorn Japanese Viburnum won’t disappoint. In mid to late spring, this beauty becomes literally smothered in showy, 2-3 inch clusters of snowball-like flower clusters that will light up the garden. The flowers are excellent both fresh or dried to make beautiful bouquets. Oval-shape, toothed, strongly-veined, dark green leaves turn to an attractive burgundy-red in fall.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 6 to 8 feet tall and 5 to 7 feet wide at maturity, Popcorn Viburnum can be grown as a large shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a highly attractive small tree ideal for use as a colorful specimen or grouping in landscape and flowering shrub borders. Also useful to frame corners, accentuate entryways, or as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. A fine addition to cut flower gardens, white theme gardens, and the Xeriscape (low water needs).

Growing Preferences

Popcorn Viburnum is very easy to grow in most any average, most but well drained soil and full sun to part shade. It prefers a loamy soil of average fertility. 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. For best flowering, at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day is suggested. Responds very well to pruning for shaping, size control and tree forming. Prune as needed immediately after flowering.

Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 5a, where this Viburnum variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Helpful Articles

Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant and care for Viburnums.

How To Plant And Care For Viburnum Plants

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Received a very nice viburnum in excellent condition. Packaging was excellent as well. Would not hesitate to recommend Wilson’s to all my gardening friends and have already told all the members of my Master Gardeners chapter about this new source for plants on the internet. Well, new to me as I’m not sure how long they’ve been around? Thanks…I’ll be back for more plants! ——————————– WBG Reply: Hi Samantha – Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review and we hope you enjoy your Popcorn Viburnum for years to come. Thanks also for spreading the word about Wilson Bros Gardens to all your gardening friends. Since we don;t do any off-site advertising, this is how we grow, Wilson Bros Gardens has been offering high-quality, container-grown and landscape-ready plants to millions of satisfied customers since 1989 and on the Internet since 2018. We used to ship for Gardener Direct but that arrangement didn’t end up working out so we built our own website to offer our plants from. Let us know if there’s ever anything else we can help you with. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens