Trees, Shrubs and Conifers: Viburnum help, 0 by kellydz

kellydz wrote:
I have two issues. I am going to post some pics to help you see how I am messing up and hopefully suggest solutions.

1. I pruned this snowball viburnum after blooms dried up because as you can see the branches were really droopy. I though by taking off the thinest branches and thinning out the interior of crossed branches and anything dead it would give it a more sturdy shape. And I wanted to keep it on the small side -- less than 8 feet. So now come August it seems to be growing back the exact same way. Am I trying to force something that this shrub doesn't want to do?The flowers are so pretty I just want the plant to be able to hold them up somewhat. Any advice would be great. I will post the next issue as a reply to this one.