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Cranberry Viburnum (Highbush) - 3 Gallon Pot

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Cranberry Viburnum (Highbush) – 3 Gallon Pot

Original price was: $84.97.Current price is: $59.48.

SKU: D2LSC 1122796019 Category: NATIVE PLANTS

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Cranberry Viburnum (Highbush)

Viburnum opulus var. americanum

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 2a-7b (8a?) Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub or Small Tree

Height at Maturity: 8-12′

Width at Maturity: 8-12′

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

Growth Habit / Form: Multi-stemmed, Round, Upright

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: White

Flower Size: 2-3″

Flowering Period: Late Spring to Early Summer

Flower Type: Flat-Topped, Lacecap

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Dark Green

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: Yes, Edible

Berry Color: Bright Red

Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun

Water Needs: Moist to Average

Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well-Drained

Soil pH: 5.5 – 7.5 (Acid to Slightly Acid)

Maintenance / Care: Low

Attracts: Birds, Butterflies, Visual Attention

Resistances: Disease, Insect, Full Sun

Description

The Cranberry Viburnum, also known as the American Cranberry Bush, is actually not a cranberry at all, though its fruit strongly resemble cranberries in both appearance and taste. They also mature in the fall, as cranberries do. In late spring to mid summer it produces abundant lacecap clusters of showy white flowers that are followed in fall by bright red juicy and tasty berries with a sweet but tart flavor like cranberry and that are rich in vitamin C. The fruits can picked and eaten right off the bush or used to make preserves, jams, jellies, sauces, etc., which make delicious condiments for meat. If you don’t eat the berries the birds will!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing 8 to 15 feet tall and 8 to 12 feet wide at maturity, the Cranberry Viburnum Bush can be grown as a large shrub or lower branches can be removed to form a very attractive small tree ideal for use as an eye-catching specimen or groupings in landscape and flowering shrub borders. Also useful to frame corners of homes and entryways or as espalier (trained to grow flat against a wall) in home foundation plantings. A fine addition to the edible landscape, white theme gardens, wildlife gardens, and cottage gardens.

Suggested Spacing: 8 feet apart for solid hedge; 18 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. 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.

Helpful Articles

Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, prune, fertilize and water Viburnums.

How To Plant And Care For Viburnum Plants

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