The attractive pink-tinged green cones take several years to ripen. The bark stands out beautifully in a winter landscape. It adjusts to both acid and alkaline soils and tolerates drought. If you've ever decked a hall at Christmas, you've snipped branches of this common pyramidal evergreen. Greenish-white flower clusters appear in late spring.
New growth continues.
Mature foliage sometimes turns yellowish-green in exposed, sunny areas. Shelter from winter winds. These viburnums well represent a beloved body of deciduous, spring-flowering shrubs, many of which develop an excellent berry crop in late summer through fall. Use viburnums in shrub borders, in masses and even as three-season privacy screens. The red berries that form in the fall usually endure well into the season.