The snowball bush, Viburnum opulus, is one native shrub that is famed for its white, spherical blooms in spring but also produces masses of red berries in early fall.

Viburnum opulus is the botanical name for the European cranberry bush, more commonly known as the snowball bush. And what a bush it is. It grows 8 to 12 feet high and often, wider than that.

Viburnum opulus, also known as European cranberry bush, has flowerheads that resemble lacecap hydrangeas — small, fertile blooms are ringed with larger sterile blooms.The cultivar V. opulus ...

Viburnums have shown up on many a gardener's radar these past few years, most notably the evergreen V. tinus and the deciduous V. plicatum and V. opulus. Viburnums are great landscape shrubs ...

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The shrub snowball bush, or European cranberry bush (Viburnum opulus), is highly susceptible to the viburnum leaf beetle. This insect can kill the shrub in 2-3 years if the infestation continues.

When Nancy and I bought our first dozen shrubs the year after we had our home built in 1975, two of them were viburnums: viburnum opulus trilobum or highbush cranberry, a native, and viburnum ...

V. carlesii - Koreanspice viburnum.One of the most fragrant viburnums. Grows to 6 feet tall. Red buds open in late March to pink-changing-to-white snowball flowers.

Viburnum opulus is a shrub or small tree known as the guelder-rose or snowball tree. It produces the most interesting flowers that start off pale green and end up white, hence the name snowball.

The snowball viburnum produces 6- to 8-inch blossoms. A close examination shows the bloom is really composed of dozens of 1-inch florets. The blossoms almost resemble a cheerleader’s pompoms.