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Chinese Snowball in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Viburnum macrocephalum

 

Chinese Snowball

There are very many different Viburnum, and most are relatively easy to grow. They can be deciduous or evergreen, most flower in Spring, and the clusters of usually fragrant flowers followed by berries, and often good Autumn leaf colours. colour of some forms.The Chinese snowball, Viburnum macrocephalum, is a deciduous shrub with large clusters of greeny-cream flowers that turn white, and look somewhat similar to small hydrangea flowers, in late Spring.

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plant Features
  • Chinese Snowball likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Chinese Snowball likes very little water

    Very little water

  • Chinese Snowball is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Chinese Snowball likes free draining

    Free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Chinese Snowball

Latin name

Viburnum macrocephalum

type

Flowering shrubs or trees

family

Adoxaceae

ph

5.0 - 8.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Chinese Snowball likes full sun to partial shade

    Full sun to partial shade

  • Frost

    Chinese Snowball is frost hardy: 23f (-5°c)

    Frost Hardy: 23F (-5°C)

  • Soil

    Chinese Snowball likes free draining

    Free draining

  • Water

    Chinese Snowball likes very little water

    Very little water

Plant & bloom calendar

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    Best time to plant
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    When the plant will bloom

full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Chinese Snowball is 1.15meters x 2.50meters 1.15 M 2.50 M

Viburnum macrocephalum

There are very many different Viburnum, and most are relatively easy to grow. They can be deciduous or evergreen, most flower in Spring, and the clusters of usually fragrant flowers followed by berries, and often good Autumn leaf colours. colour of some forms.The Chinese snowball, Viburnum macrocephalum, is a deciduous shrub with large clusters of greeny-cream flowers that turn white, and look somewhat similar to small hydrangea flowers, in late Spring.


Flowering Season

From Late Spring TO Late Spring

It bears large blousy flowers, similar to hydrangea blooms, in late spring.

 

Planting Outdoors spring

From Early Spring TO Late Spring

Plant out pot grown plants in growing position either in the spring or autumn.

 

Planting Outdoors autumn

From Early Autumn TO Late Autumn

Plant out pot grown plants in growing position either in the spring or autumn.

 

Propagation by cuttings

From Mid Spring TO Early Summer

Take soft wood cuttings in spring to early summer. Cleanly cut up to a 10cm long stems, remove lower leaves and pinch the tip out, dip the stem into rooting hormone, fill a container/pot with suitable compost, make holes around the edge of it and plant the cuttings, water in well, cover with a polythene bag and place somewhere warm, lake the bag off twice a week to air the cuttings. Keep the cuttings moist until well rooted.Harden off when well rooted and pot on into individual pots increasing the airing to let the leaves to develop. Remove rotten, dying or dead cuttings regularly.

 
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