Viburnum macrocephalum [sterile]

Huge, rounded, white Hydrangea-like flowers are borne in early spring and last for several weeks. The color show starts with small rounded clusters of apple-green buds and so the Chinese Snowball Bush entertains us for weeks in anticipation of spring. Mature plants will often produce flowers in late summer as well although the best show is typically in spring. These are easy to grow large shrubs with a medium to fast rate of growth and a naturally upright to vase shaped habit when young eventually growing as wide as high once mature. Chinese Snowball Bush was selected as a 2006 Georgia Gold Medal Winner! The huge flowers make excellent long lasting cut flowers for a vase as well. The Chinese Snowball Bush or Chinese Snowball Viburnum seems to have few, if any, pests or diseases in the landscape when provided with 6 hours or more of sunlight per day and a well-drained, acidic soil. If 15' if too much for you Dr. Dirr inDirr's Encyclopedia of Trees and Shrubssays that it can be periodically cut back to 2-3' high. It may cost you the next spring's flower show but will be exceptionally full and floriferous thereafter.