Superior Horticultural Services

06/03/2025

07/16/2022

So Blessed, some of my Viburnum pictures are now published in a Book in France, Viburnum Monograph, by Andre Gayraud.

02/24/2022

🇺🇦💛💙 Viburnum opulus 💙💛🇺🇦
(European Cranberrybush Viburnum)
The symbolic tree/shrub of Ukraine.

"In addition to having a poetic and musical-sounding name, the kalyna is thoroughly embedded in Ukrainian folklore, figuring prominently in many folk songs and sayings and frequently appearing as a motif in embroidery and traditional decorative art.

It is especially noteworthy that the kalyna is revered as a potent national symbol expressive of Ukraine’s yearning for freedom.

When a Cossack fell in battle while defending Ukraine, his comrades would lay him to rest in a burial mound, or mohyla, upon which they would plant a kalyna bush to honour his sacrifice. “Chervona Kalyna,” or “The Red Kalyna,” is a patriotic hymn first popularized by the Ukrainian Sich Rifleman in the tumult of the First World War and the struggle for Ukrainian independence.

In the Second World War it once again served as the unofficial anthem of the Ukrainian liberation movement, inspiring members of the underground Ukrainian Insurgent Army. Today, Ukraine’s armed forces wear shoulder patches featuring kalyna berries and leaves . . ."
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"A curious feature of several species of Viburnum is the presence of two distinct types of flower in one inflorescence – the one sterile and showy, consisting of a corolla without stamens or pistil, the other much smaller but perfect and fertile. The function of the large sterile ray-flowers is that of advertisement, to attract insects to the inflorescence." ---https://treesandshrubsonline.org/articles/viburnum/

It's a very cool adaptation---but it can lead to problems when breeders of this type of viburnum, as well as hydrangeas and other genera, hybridize to privilege the flashy infertile flowers at the expense of the small fertile flowers. Insects come for the loudly advertised food---nectar and pollen---only to find little available.

The fertile flowers of this inflorescence are still in bud.
[Woody planting at the east end of the Greenhouse II Complex drive; May 14, 2021]

11/10/2021

The fall color this year has been 😍 beautiful

05/22/2021

sargentii 'Onondaga' this lady sure puts on a show in late may.

04/27/2021

Carlesi 'Sweet Susan Renee' isn't she a real show off' and smells amazing also.

04/27/2021

Viburnum carlesi 'Sweet Susan Renee's isn't she a real show off😃

04/02/2021

Lil' Ditty® Witherod Viburnum
Viburnum cassinoides

Lil' Ditty® - Witherod Viburnum - Viburnum cassinoides

EXPOSURE
PART SUN TO SUN
SUN
The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive: Full Sun (6+ hours), Part Sun (4-6 hours), Full Shade (up to 4 hours).

FLOWER SEASON
SPRING
MATURE SIZE
24"
24"
Height
12 - 24"
Spread
12 - 24

03/14/2021

Don't forget to add your spring fragrant Viburnums to your landscape, will be smelling these beauties soon, and your neighbors will be envious!