Viburnum Wedding Cake Shrub

Other common names wedding cake tree variegated table dogwood.

Viburnum wedding cake shrub. Viburnum plicatum mariesii wedding cake tree. Use a good quality john innes compost as this plant will be there a long time and peaty types of compost eventually degrade and become too packed and choke the roots. Many have fine autumn colour. Japanese snowball mariesii if there is one shrub that no garden should be without it is viburnum plicatum mariesii.

Tiny flowers are borne in dense clusters sometimes with showy bracts. This is a deciduous shrub that is not much to look at during the winter but come march. We recommend osmoscote pro 12 14 month applied in the early spring. Genus cornus can be deciduous shrubs or trees or creeping woody based perennials some with brightly coloured young stems.

Mariesii great star mariesii great star is a large deciduous shrub with tiered wide spreading branches bearing ovate deeply veined dark green leaves turning red and purple in autumn and in late spring and early summer large flat lacecap like clusters of fragrant white flowers followed by red fruit maturing to black. Blooms that are perfect for pollinators and berries that wildlife love. Sometimes referred to as the wedding cake shrub a magnificent display of large pure white flowers in may shows why this is such a popular shrub for any garden. If i were pushed to say which one shrub i would never give up it would be the viburnum plicatum mariesii.

Ensure you feed regularly as a hungry plant is a poor performer.