Viburnum Doublefile as a tree

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posies4me Hixson, TN(Zone 7b) Sep 30, 2008

I read somewhere that Doublefiles can be limbed up into a small tree. I can't remember where I read this, but I recall the article specifically mentioned mariesii. Does anyone know if this can be successfully done?

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limnaia Brockton, MA Oct 05, 2008

Hi. I've got a viburnum trilobum that is doing very nicely as a standard so far. It was a single-stem scraggly garden-club plant sale item (1/2" diameter stem/ 3 ft high) when I got it and I decided to make a virtue of its lack of bushiness by making it into a small tree. I have had to trim off suckers from base and rub off sprouts from stem, but it has filled out and straightened up quite nicely over the 15 months I've had it. (It branches out at about 3 feet from the ground and is about 4.5 ft. tall now). I'm exceedingly pleased and hope for great things from it. I bet you could get a mariesii to do this too, but it would probably have to be a fairly slow and gradual process at first and would always need policing of suckers.
yours,
Gretchen

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janecarol2 Fort Jennings, OH Oct 16, 2008

I have an article that says the best shrubs to turn into small trees are those that grow 8 to 15 feet tall and don't form suckers

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