Description

A breathtaking shrub with huge ball-shaped flowers ranging in color from pink to white in spring, showy almost beyond words, flowers are sterile so the shrub does not produce fruit; compact size, bronze-tinted foliage add up to a fine specimen plant

Landscape Attributes

Kern's Pink 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.

Kern's Pink Snowball Viburnum is recommended for the following landscape applications;

Planting & Growing

Kern's Pink Snowball Viburnum will grow to be about 8 feet tall at maturity, with a spread of 7 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.