Prague Viburnum

Viburnum x pragense

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Plant Details

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

Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub or Small Tree

Height at Maturity: 8-12′, taller if tree-formed

Width at Maturity: 8-12′

Spacing: 8′ apart for solid hedge; 16’+ apart for space between plants.

Growth Habit / Form: Multi-stemmed, Upright Rounded

Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast

Flower Color: Pink Buds open to White flower

Flower Size: Small in 3-6″ rounded/domed clusters

Flowering Period: Spring

Flower Type: Domed Clusters

Fragrant Flowers: Yes

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: Yes

Berry Color: Red maturing to Black

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun. All Day Filtered Sun

Water Needs: Moist to Average

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

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

Soil pH: 5.0 – 7.5 (Acid to Neutral)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Visual Attention, Birds, Butterflies, Beneficial Insects

Resistances: Deer (moderate resistance), Disease, Moderate Drought, Heat, Insect, Air Pollution

Description

An outstanding cross hybrid between Viburnum rhytidofyllum and Viburnum utile, the Prague Viburnum is a very desirable evergreen flowering shrub featuring elongated dark green leaves year round that serve as an excellent backdrop for abundant domed clusters of pink buds that open to fragrant white flowers in spring. The flowers are followed by red berries that the birds will enjoy well into winter. It forms a large, multi-stem shrub to about 8 to 12 feet tall and wide making it a fine landscape selection for a specimen, background to lower growing plants or as a natural hedge or screen.

Good pollinators for better berry production on Prague Viburnum are ‘Alleghany’, ‘Willowwood’, ‘Conoy’, ‘Chesapeake’ or ‘Eskimo’ viburnums.

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 8 to 12 feet tall and wide at maturity, the Prague Viburnum can be grown as a large shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive small tree. Either way, it is an eye-catching specimen or natural hedge in landscape and flowering shrub borders. Also useful to frame corners of homes or other buildings or as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. A fine addition white theme gardens, wildlife gardens, and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 8 feet apart for solid hedge; 16 feet or more apart for space between plants.

Growing Preferences

Viburnum is very easy to grow in most any moist but well drained soil of average fertility and full sun to part shade. It prefers a loamy soil rich in organic matter. As with so many other ornamental plants it does not like constantly soggy or wet conditions. Quite 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.

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