Can you identify these viburnums for me?
Hello,
I have been meaning to ask this for ages. I have the first two in my garden, the last is in my neighbour's front garden but I love it.
1. Flowering very well this year since having the conifer that was squashing it removed. Smells pretty good but not strong. Pretty, pink tinged.
2. In front garden, suffers every year from the leaves over the whole plant being eaten away until it looks horrible. A couple of years ago I cut it to the ground, planning to get rid of it but it grew back and seems healthier. No scent to speak of.
3. The most divinely scented bush, the children and I stop to smell the creamy white flowers literally every time we pass. At the moment you don't even need to stop, the smell just drifts over you as you pass. I've never seen so many flowers on it, it's usually much more patchy.
Are they all viburnums? Thanks in advance for your help.
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they're all viburnums, good start
the pink one is fragrans or a x bodnantense cultivar
the second is tinus
Last edited: 10 January 2017 09:30:05
In the sticks near Peterborough
Took the picture a few minutes ago, Nutcutlet. The leaves come later.
I've always referred to them as viburnums, so I'm glad I was right about that. But I've never known what kind (all here when we moved in).
Edited to add: I'm in SE London, so warmish.
Last edited: 10 January 2017 09:34:44
Took another photo of no. 3. Admittedly in the dark, and they keep it quite tightly trimmed, but you can get an idea of the proportions. But usually there are only about a third of this number of flowers (then others come out bit by bit as the leaves start).
The third one looks like another cultivar of viburnum bodnantense too. "Dawn" is the one I know, which is quite pink (maybe even your first one) but there are other cultivars - I'd try Mr Google and his images to see if you get something similar
Ok, scrub that suggestion - bodnantense are all pink. But maybe a V. Farreri ...... Have a look at this s article
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2011/jan/16/dan-pearson-gardens-viburnum?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
The one in the headline photo might be a candidate?
Maybe. The flowers in that picture look rather looser than my neighbour's, which are really quite waxy and tight in comparison - could that be due to the pruning? However, googling viburnum farreri "candissimum" does give some pictures which are more like it, including the rather dark stems, so I think you may well be right. Interesting article too! Thanks.