Shrub Viburnum Juddii
Viburnum juddii grows 6 to 8 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide.
Shrub viburnum juddii. Bitchiuense developed in 1920 at the arnold arboretum mass w h. With its dark green almost blue foliage and white semi snowball blossoms viburnum juddii or judd viburnum is a deciduous shrub that adds color fragrance and even fruit to your garden. X juddii is a rounded bushy deciduous shrub with broadly ovate to elliptic dark green leaves sometimes turning red in autumn and spherical clusters of rose pink buds opening to small fragrant pink flushed white flowers in spring. Hardy to usda zone 4 5 a cross of v.
Judd viburnum plants have the fragrant 3 inch dome shaped flowers of its parent plant koreanspice. Judd was the propagator. Viburnum x juddii sku 7463 wonderfully fragrant white blooms in spring and a full rounded form make this shrub a standout in the landscape. Flowers are followed by berry like fruit which ripen from red to black.
Large rounded blooms are followed by highly ornamental berries. Viburnum juddii commonly called judd viburnum is a semi snowball hybrid propagated by william h. Judd viburnum flowering shrub spring flowering shrubs with delightfully sweet fragrance are not as common as you d think. This means that the flower heads are half spheres with a rounded top and flattened bottom.
These flower buds start out pink then open to a creamy white. Resembling viburnum carlesii koreanspice viburnum but considered more bushy and spreading leaves more oblong and flower clusters more loose. Judd who introduced it at the arnold arboretum in 1920. Family adoxaceae genus viburnum can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs with opposite simple or palmately lobed leaves and clusters of small often fragrant white or pink flowers followed by red blue or black berries.
Viburnum x juddii or commonly called judd viburnum is what april is made of beautiful semi snowball clusters from pink in the bud to white that are lightly scented. X juddii v. Intermediate between the parents. A rounded deciduous shrub it typically matures to 6 8 tall and 6 10 wide.
They bloom for about 10 days in spring to early summer and attract pollinators who feast on the sweet nectar.