Viburnum plicatum 'Newport'

Here it is, just opening up its flowers. This plant is about 30" tall, and 6 years old. This will be its first year blooming for me. Good for small gardens. (Scott--Carpinus Alert! C. caroliniana behind it).

Beautiful, Kevin. It looks a lot like my V. dilatatum 'Erie'.
http://pic16.picturetrail.com/VOL635/2413050/6480927/83350485.jpg

I presume it will be covered with berries ?

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Yeah! Carpinus. I like the viburnum too. Interesting how much fuller the leaves are than the V. plicatum tomentosums I know.

Scott

Marian--nope, no berries. Strictly a plant for show, sterile as can be.

I thought the petals looked larger than my 'Erie'.
The 'Erie' is covered with red berries in the fall.

Even if V. plicatum produces berries, the birds eat them so fast, they only last a couple of days...

That is beautiful...How big does it get eventually? Does it stay fairly small?

I would guess 5' would be max. I have seen fairly old ones still at 4' tall.

Patrick, the birds didn't eat my V. dilatatum's berries....the deer did! :-(
And they nipped off the ends of the twigs with the next year's buds!

The birds didn't eat the fruit off my Cardinal Candy V. dilatatum either. Its STILL hanging there from last fall and the plants are getting ready to flower again. I have so many bird attracting fruits and they are all gone. All my other viburnums have the fruit eaten, just the CC left. Very weird.

Birds don't eat the berries from the Am. Cranberry Bush either. They hang on until the new blooms and leaves come on. I agree...it's weird. And it is not because we don't have plenty of berry-eating birds.

Don't you just want to spank those deer! Anyway, the berries on my V. picatum and my Vib. picatum var tomentosums all disapear fast. One of the best fruit producers I have, V. p var t 'Fireworks' barely keeps its fruit two days past ripe. Now you see them, opps! where'd they go??? Too bad, because they are so pretty marching down the branches, and bright red, too!

We do have plenty of birds here too. They do finially eat the berries off my American Cranberry bush Viburnums but its always very late in the year. The ones that don't seem to get eaten are the yellow berries off my European Cranberry bush Viburnum. So far they have produced few fruit, being small but this year are gowing to flower heavily for the first time.

Patrick--just one correction--V. plicatum is sterile, so you won't be getting any fruit on those. Do you have a pic of your 'Fireworks' you could post? Mine is barely 2' tall, though it already has a handful of flowers.

Oooppps, Kevin, your are right about the straight species. I just went outside to look at V. p var t 'Fireworks' again. It started flowering about two days ago, which incidently is way too early. It usually blooms in June here in SE Michigan. 'Fireworks' lives at the edge of a shrub border that runs along the West side of my house to the North. It is in shade most of the day from a very large Pinus strobus. It is a testimonial to how much shade this species can thrive in. It is about 8' tall and equaly as wide. I love this shrub, my favorite of all the other varieties that I have seen. Usually it is covered with flowers up and down the branches. But this year flowers are only forming on the youngest parts of its branches. Hmmm. Perhaps last year's horrible hot, dry Summer is to blame for its light showing. I will take some pics and post this weekend when I get out to my other house. I can't post with this browser, or at least, I can't post digital pics from a camera. I'll try and get pics of the fruit when it comes too...

I just went out to look at the pair of V. p var t 'Mariesii' in the back yard growing in full sun. They are just starting to form their flowers. It looks as though they will both have sparse showings this year as well...

I posted this in the wrong string. Here is one of our Newports. Since the sun is setting, it's a bit dark. I'll try to get a better one tomorrow. It's about 4.5' high, and has had nothing done to it except fertilization, primarily with SoilSoup.