Description

A breathtaking shrub with huge ball-shaped white flowers in spring, showy almost beyond words; flowers are sterile so the shrub does not produce fruit; serrated, deeply veined forest green foliage add up to a fine specimen plant; burgundy fall color

Landscape Attributes

Sawtooth Snowball Viburnum is a multi-stemmed deciduous shrub with a more or less rounded form. Its average texture blends into the landscape, but can be balanced by one or two finer or coarser trees or shrubs for an effective composition.

Sawtooth Snowball Viburnum is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Sawtooth Snowball Viburnum will grow to be about 10 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 10 feet. It has a low canopy with a typical clearance of 1 foot from the ground, and is suitable for planting under power lines. It grows at a medium rate, and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more.

This shrub does best in full sun to partial shade. It does best in average to evenly moist conditions, but will not tolerate standing water. It is not particular as to soil type or pH. It is highly tolerant of urban pollution and will even thrive in inner city environments. This is a selected variety of a species not originally from North America.