Mock Orange & Viburnum with blooms in August

Hello Everyone, Strange thing happening this year. My mock orange and one of my snowball viburnums have a couple of blooms on them today. What a pleasent surprise! I didn't think they could repeat bloom:)

Here's the viburnum. I took this picture this morning.

Here's a picure of (what was supposed to be) an identical snowball virburnum that is planted at the opposite end of my yard. This one has been gradually replacing it's "snowballs" with lace cap blooms - as discussed on a previous post. It has beautiful berries. I hadn't noticed them in years past. Am I to assume they are from the abundance of lace cap blooms this year?

My mock orange popped into a few blooms this late, too. But you have a load of them...
That's always a nice surprise.....

I'm getting the same thing now on my Chitalpa.
Maybe it just appreciates the dang drought . . .
Guy S.

Are you sure that is a snowball? Maybe it is growing its root stock if it was a graft bush? I am no expert. Just wondering.

Also I thought a was sterile? Snowball Viburnum or Viburnum opulus 'Sterile' has sterile flowers, which is extremely showy in flower, but bears no fruit.....I cut and past that last bit.....

.....susan

Susan, The viburnum with the berries I have discovered (I think) to be the result of a mix up at the nursery. Cut & Paste from my other thread below:

I did call the nursery and spoke with the tree and shrub specialist and he said that they do not graft the Viburnums, but what may have happened is a "plug" of a different type (such as Doublefile) may have been accidently combined in the pot with the Snowball type... Just my luck....

The funny thing is Susan, that the lace cap variety is taking over. Every year I have less and less snowball type blooms and more and more of the lace cap type blooms. Which is why (I assume) that I noticed all the berries this year. It was suggested on the other thread to prune out the lace cap variety if I want just the snowballs but at this point I'm not sure if I would have much left and everything is so intertwined. I plan to take another look at it in the spring:)

I just gotta say loudly "SERENITY NOW!"

lol, (That's from Seinfeld for those of you....)

Dax

LOL, one of my favorite episodes. When I get to the point where I need to scream SERENITY NOW - I just go out to the garden and I am instantly calm and relaxed. Seemed like the perfect handle for me....('til Guy felt the need to note that Serenity is also the name of an adult diaper...poo poo to you Guy!) SERENITY NOW!!!!!

What are adult diapers for, Guy? I am unaware of such a product. Do you compost yours? LOL
My Mockorange is reblooming also. Probably the gratitude of an extremely thankfull bush to be able to live close to me. LOL
Just for my education this bush was a recent purchase and I pruned all of the new long growth to help with root development and stress. Maybe that is why it is reblooming?


This message was edited Aug 6, 2006 3:05 PM

Serenity--thats definitely a Viburnum opulus(or V. trilobum perhaps), not a doublefile.

Steve, if you live long enough out there in the mountains you'll probably need some serenity too, for your own poo poo! I told SN about that name connection when she first came on board, and I guess it made an impression!
;-)

SN, when Steve needs some serenity he probably just goes out in the back yard and shoots something, cooks it over the fire, and spits the bones out into the woods. Arrrggghhhhh!

Guy S.

Serenity is something I wake to, live around, experience daily, require to survive, place at the top of my priorities. It is why I'm trying to grow a garden in a glacial moraine at 3,400ft of elevation that has 3 months of 5 to 8% humidity, 2 to 6 weeks of -30F, and most important no gardeners within 300 miles with any gardens besides a small plot of annuals that are perennials everywhere else. LOL

This message was edited Aug 6, 2006 4:59 PM

Sorry, it was a typo -- I should have said Serenity, not serenity!
Guy S.

Oh now I know what Serenity is. I was confused.

Breath-taking view, Steve! Wow! I would have no problem shooting something, cooking it over a fire and even spitting the bones into the woods for a view like that!

And Guy, lol, I have read many of your posts and you always make an impression!

Not my view just a hike up a hill nearby. Looking over Flathead Lake in the distance.

So you're that close to Flathead Lake! NICE digs!

SN, some of those impressions aren't always good ones, but I can't help myself. (Who could be making me do such things? Who could it be? Let's see . . . could it be . . . Satan?) Bwaaahahahaha!
(Old SNL, for you deprived youngsters who don't remember the churchlady)

Guy S.

Yeah I have to be "close" to flathead cause I can't afford to be "on" flathead. Well the yacht club and sailboat make it tolerable. I wish I could still get into SNL like I used to. I miss churchlady. I'm sure there is another similar anti christ in the new SNL.