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Viburnum dentatum 'Blue Muffin' |
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| | Serrations are even more pronounced on the new leaves, which also have a healthy gleam |
| Common name |
arrowwood viburnum |
| Family |
adoxaceae |
| Life cycle |
shrub |
| Flowers |
white (May-June) |
| Size |
5-7' |
| Light |
sun-part shade |
Purchased by mail-order as a tiny shrub, this plant is still getting into its own in our garden. It did present us with some flowers this spring, but I haven't seen its signature blue berries yet. Fall color is promising so far. I noticed some ants farming aphids in early May, but haven't seen too much damage as of yet.
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| | This specimen is the plain species (I believe). It is shown here in the vegetable garden nursery area, where I kept it until I could figure out what it was; it has since moved to the front yard. |
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In our garden, this plant grows in the following areas: the lane, front yard About my plant portraits
Visitors to this page have left the following comments| Dave in Wisconsin | Apr 16, 2006 | The Blue Muffin Viburnum is new to me. I don't know how hold your comments are about your Viburnum not yet getting berries, so I wonder if it's done any better since you wrote this comment.
My previous comments were from last year - let's see how it does this year. Too early to tell. |
| Marie in New Brunswick, Canada | Jul 23, 2006 | We planted the Bluemuffin Viburnum this spring and have had flowers and starting to berry now. However we have noticed the leaves of tips of stems have blackened and fallen off. What can be causing this?
I don't know - I don't believe I've seen the same thing happen to mine. I hope yours recovers. |
| Miriam | Aug 06, 2006 | I put my Blue Muffin in a year ago here in Bellingham, WA - this year it has been attacked by viburnum leaf beetles, which almost completely defoliated it twice - once by the larvae and again by the adult beetles. I am probably going to take it out all together, since I have other viburnums in my garden, and I don't want to hassle with controlling the bugs. |
| Penny in Ontario Canada | Sep 30, 2006 | I purchases my Blue muffin a couple of years ago from a mail order source. Because of its small size I planted it in a wee flower garden to see how it did before I found a permanent place for it in my zone 4b garden. The first year it did fine and about doubled in size. These past 2 years it has been completlyly defoliated twice as Miriam said. Just today while cleaning up I noticed that it has all its leaves back and it is starting to show good fall colour. I think I will give it one more year to see if it behaves a little better. |
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