Sugar Cookie Sweet Viburnum
Viburnum odoratissiumum ‘Compact 01’ PPIP
Plant Details
USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 8a-10b Find Your Zone
Plant Type: Evergreen Flowering Shrub
Height at Maturity: 5-6′
Width at Maturity: 5-6′
Spacing: 3-4′ for solid hedge; 8′ + for space between plants
Growth Habit / Form: Upright, Rounded
Growth Rate: Moderate to Fast
Flower Color: White
Flower Size: .5″ in clusters
Flowering Period: Spring
Flower Type: Single
Fragrant Flowers: Yes
Foliage Color: Dark Green
Fragrant Foliage: No
Berries: Yes
Berry Color: Red turning to Black
Sun Needs: Full to Mostly Sun, Morning Sun With Afternoon Shade, Morning Shade with Afternoon Sun
Water Needs: Average, low when established
Soil Type: Clay, Loam, Sandy, Silty
Soil Moisture / Drainage: Moist But Well Drained to Dry when established
Soil pH: 5.5 – 6.5 (Acid to Slightly Acid)
Maintenance / Care: Low
Attracts: Visual Attention
Resistances: Deer – more info, Disease, Heat, Humidity, Insect
Description
Maturing to only 5 to 6 feet tall and wide, Sugar Cookie is a much more compact Sweet Viburnum with dense, evergreen foliage that emerges light green, matures to a handsome dark emerald green, and finally to a striking red in winter. Now to the sweet part. In spring, abundant, delicate and beautiful clusters of sweetly fragrant, small white flowers and attract butterflies. This is a shrub frequently used by birds for nesting to raise their young. Exceptionally heat tolerant and disease and pest resistant, Sugar Cookie is right at home in Southern landscapes.
Landscape & Garden Uses
Growing 5 to 6 feet tall and wide, depending on pruning, Sugar Cookie Sweet Viburnum is ideal for use as an accent, grouped or massed, or as a hedge in home foundation plantings and landscape and flowering shrub borders. A fine addition to tropical gardens, white theme gardens, fragrance gardens and the Xeriscape (low water needs).
Suggested Spacing: 3 to 4 feet apart for solid hedges; 8 feet or more apart for space between plants
Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 8a, where this Viburnum variety is not reliably winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.
Growing Preferences
The Sugar Cookie Sweet Viburnum is very easy to grow in most any moist but well-drained soil and full sun to part shade. As with so many other ornamental shrubs, constantly soggy or wet soil can cause problems with the roots. We suggest at least 5 hours of direct sunlight per day for best flowering and foliage density. Responds very well to pruning for shaping and size control. Prune as needed immediately after flowering.
Helpful Articles
Click on the link below to find helpful advice from our experts on how to plant, prune, fertilize and water Viburnums.
How To Plant And Care For Viburnum Plants
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