Viburnum dentatum 'Blue Muffin'
Price:
$27.99
Regular Price
🌿 General Description
- Type: Deciduous shrub
- Habit: Rounded, dense, well-branched
- Appearance: Natural, somewhat wild but structurable
👉 This is an ideal plant for ecological or semi-formal landscaping.
📏 Height and Width
- Height: 1.5 to 2.5 m (5 to 8 feet)
- Width: 1.5 to 2.5 m
👉 Perfect size for:
- medium hedge
- visual screen
- natural mass planting
🌸 Flowering
- Color: Creamy white
- Shape: Small flat cymes
- Period: Early to mid-summer
💡 Attracts:
- bees
- pollinators
🫐 Fruits (significant interest)
- Color: Dark blue (very decorative)
- Period: Late summer → autumn
- Attraction: Birds
👉 This is one of its strong points:
➡️ creates a "vivid blue" effect very rare in shrubs
🍁 Autumn Color
- Red / purple / crimson
👉 Very beautiful seasonal coloring
☀️ Exposure
- Sun
- Partial shade (very tolerant)
🌱 Soil
- Very adaptable:
- clay
- average soils
- drier soils once established
👉 More tolerant than many ornamental shrubs
❄️ Hardiness
-
Zone 3 to 8
👉 Perfect for Quebec
💧 Maintenance
- Very easy
- Light pruning if necessary
- Low fertilization requirements
👉 "Low maintenance" plant
🛡️ Resistance
- Good general resistance
- Tolerates:
- urban conditions
- moderate drought
- Few serious problems