22+ Viburnum Popcorn Plant

This will be a true crowd pleaser for those who already know and love viburnums as well as those just getting started. Now is the perfect time to plant.

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Viburnum popcorn plant

It will be a big plant. A quick grower and precocious bloomer popcorn has the habit and flower style of the japanese snowball but is supposed to have fertile flowers hiding inside those numerous puffballs of flowers. Tall 150 240 cm and 4 7 ft.

Popcorn viburnum is very easy to grow in most any average most but well drained soil and full sun to part shade. A full sun or part shade lover this plant is easily grown in average medium. Handsome deeply veined green foliage turns red to purple in fall.

Winner of the prestigious award of garden merit of the royal horticultural society. It prefers a loamy soil of average fertility. As with so many other ornamental plants it does not like constantly soggy or wet conditions.

This floriferous hardy plant can be used to naturalize a woodland setting with little maintenance and brightens that not so sunny spot in the landscape. Very drought tolerant when established and we ve seen no serious pest or disease problems. Viburnum plicatum is a dense upright multi stemmed deciduous shrub that typically matures to 8 15 tall with a slightly larger spread.

Leaves turn burgundy red to purplish red in fall. Plicatum popcorn japanese snowball grows up to 5 8 ft. Viburnum plicatum tomentosum popcorn lives up to it s name when fluffy white flowers spring into action april through may.

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