Usually, shrubs for the home grounds are chosen for beauty, fitness, diversified attractions, or mere serviceability. But the Korean spice viburnum appeals more directly to our affections titan to our aesthetic or practical sense. It has little beauty of foliage and no decorative fruit or prominent autumn color. It just holds out, early in May, … Read more
The viburnums comprise so many excellent shrubs from diversified environments that one can hardly begin to grow them all in one garden. Perhaps it would be better to say that a beginning should be made for every garden, for no other genus of hardy shrubs offers so much beauty and interest over such long periods. … Read more
The viburnum clan contains several excellent shrubs for the small property. Among these is the linden viburnum, so named because the leaves are somewhat the same size and shape as those of the linden tree. This viburnum is a native of China and Japan, where it is a highly prized garden plant. Nearly half of … Read more