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Vibrunum Cardinal Candy fruit
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Photo: Ginny Rozenkranz
shrub, and deer will browse on the tall and 6-8 feet wide, vase shaped stems that root when their tips reach
twigs and bark, but do-little damage. with bright red burgundy fall color. the ground and trip or hobble like
There are no serious pests for the Virbunum lantanoides is also called someone walking in the woods. The
Arrowwood Viburnum, but the Hobblebush or Witch Hobble is flowers are more like a hydrangea
Viburnum leaf beetle and whiteflies a native Viburnum that thrives in than a viburnum, growing at the tips
can damage the foliage. mountainous areas in the Piedmont, of the branches to form a 3–5-inch flat
Some of the excellent cultivars of growing from Canada to central top cluster of tiny white flowers with
Viburnum dentatum include Blue Pennsylvania, south in the mountains large white sterile flowers scattered
Muffin which is a compact variety down to north Georgia and west on the outside of the cluster in early
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that grows 3-5 feet tall and wide, to northeast Ohio. The plants grow summer. The flowers mature into
covered with creamy white flowers 6-8 feet tall and 6-12 feet wide in a 1/3-inch-long red drupes that mature
in the spring and intense azure- broad open, cascading and often to purple in the late summer. Because
blue berries in the late summer into a straggling habit. Large dark green, the Hobblebush lacks symmetry, it
fall. Another wonderful cultivar is heart shaped leaves have a slightly is not often found in garden centers
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Autumn Jazz , an upright vase shaped serrated margin and grow 3-6 inches or nurseries but fit in the cool moist
deciduous shrub that reaches 8-10 long. In early autumn the leaves turn mountain areas. These shrubs thrive
feet tall, 6-12 feet wide and has good bronze red with lavender purple in dappled light or full shade along
yellow-orange-red- burgundy autumn and burgundy red colors. The name stream banks and cool moist acidic
coloring. Cardinal™ grows 8-10 feet Hobblebush stands for the arching soils and are cold tolerant in USDA
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