Viburnum Hybrid, Prague Viburnum 'Decker'

This hybrid between the Leatherleaf Viburnum x the Service Viburnum, both from East Asia, is occasionally planted in southeast Pennsylvan...Read Moreia in well-to-do neighbourhoods and professional landscapes, sold by a good number of conventional nurseries. It is very scurfy on its twigs and foliage from both parent species that can cause some skin allergy on some people. It does well in landscapes and will grow wide and gets an irregular, loose, stiff twiggy habit. I'm not really fond of it.

This hybrid is fully evergreen here in Boston Z6a, though in frigid subfreezing weather the petioles temporarily become lax and the leave...Read Mores droop dispiritingly. If unpruned, the habit is somewhat open, but it still makes a good evergreen screen. It can reach over 12' in height.

I find the flower display underwhelming.

Cornell has rated viburnums for resistance to the devastating Viburnum leaf beetle and found this hybrid to be moderately susceptible---it is usually not killed.

I bought this plant about a month ago for a reduced rate (all shrubs were reduced, my local nursery, in early October, zone 7A.) At the...Read More time it had a few yellow leaves, but now 1/2 the plant is yellow. During the same plant "binge" I purchased a Winterthur and a Brandywine Viburnum. All are planted under taller pine trees (within six feet of each other) and get morning and some afternoon sun. While the last two viburnums appear robust and ready to take on the winter in Central PA, the Prague looks sickly and ready to croak. Any advice?

This plant is evergreen for me. I chose it as a screen and it has done a great job, grown to about 10 feet tall. It is easy to trim to b...Read Moree a narrower plant which is ideal for my location. The leaves droop when the ground freezes but they perk back up when it thaws. Spring flowers are lovely. I have white rose (Climbing iceberg) growing through it making a nice paring for my site. Ideally it would also provide food for the birds, However, I get little fruiting and most of it falls off. I would be interested to know if birds eat fruit and a suggested cross pollinator. I have Conoy viburnum at present and whatever the wind or bugs bring.