‘Snowballs’ Bring Variety to Landscape

Viburnum is often called the snowball bush because many of its varieties have pom-poms of white flowers covering the plant when it is in bloom.

From a distance, the flowers look like snowballs and are actually clusters of very small flowers. The viburnums offer gardeners an astonishing variety of useful shrubs and occasionally small trees that blend well into almost any landscape.

Many are suitable for grouping in shrub beds and borders and many are useful as foundation plantings. On lawns, single specimens can be displayed to advantage. Tall viburnums are useful as formal or informal screens. Some are adaptable for display against walls. Mostly, viburnums are appreciated for their good looks and abundant production of flowers.