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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