Chicago Lustre Viburnum Hedge

Also develops white flowers and nice blue fruits if a compatible pollinator is planted nearby.

Chicago lustre viburnum hedge. It can grow to a mature size of 12 x 10 blooms in late may early june with white flower clusters and blue black fruit in the fall. Excellent in shrub borders groupings hedges and screens or naturalized with native ornamentals to attract wildlife during fruit set. Monrovia s chicago lustre arrowwood viburnum details and information. Noted for its nice glossy deep green foliage on an 8 10 x 8 10 upright rounded shrub.

Learn more about monrovia plants and best practices for best possible plant performance. Native to north america. Summer fruit attracts songbirds. Usda zone 4.

Chicago lustre arrowwood viburnum chicago lustre arrowwood viburnum produces clusters of tiny white flowers followed by blue black fruit that provides forage for songbirds. Yellow to reddish fall color very late in the season. Glossy dark green foliage turns yellow to burgundy in autumn. They do well in full sun.

5 7 high 5 7 spread flowering shrub partial. It grows at a medium rate and under ideal conditions can be expected to live for 40 years or more. Arrowwood viburnum viburnum dentatum synnestvedt. It can withstand heat and drought extremely well.

A good pollinator for blue muffin below. This viburnum can be used in the landscape in masses hedges or shrub borders. Chicagoland grows is a nonprofit corporation of the chicago botanic garden. This cultivar is noted for producing fruit more abundantly than the species.

A chicagoland grows introduction. Creamy white flowers appear mid to late june followed by clusters of metallic blue fruit from late august through october. Glossy foliage is the most notable feature of this rapid growing upright rounded plant. The fruit are deep porcelain blue to blue purple maturing in august and.

Foliage turns purple maroon in fall. Chicago lustre arrowwood viburnum gets its name from the bright shiny green mature foliage. Viburnum dentatum synnestvedt swipe to view more. The foliage is thick dark green and glossy throughout the growing season.

Arrowwood viburnum prefers a good loam soil with ample moisture. The chicago lustre viburnum is a multi stemmed shrub with an upright rounded habit. Use as a tall screen hedge or specimen plant. Chicago lustre viburnum viburnum dentatum synnestvedt an excellent clonal selection of a versatile landscape shrub with beautiful glossy.

Chicago lustre viburnum arrowwood. Dentatums need another cultivar for pollination to make copius fruit. It tends to be a little leggy with a typical clearance of 2 feet from the ground and is suitable for planting under power lines. Reddish purple or gold fall color and with a slightly later bloom than the species.