Viburnum 'Susy'
Susy is a four season sharp dresser.
Her slightly fragrant flowers have pink buds, opening pure white, and they cover the shrub in spring.
Excellent, heat-tolerant summer foliage is dark green. In some winters the evergreen (semi-evergreen in harsh winters) turns red for winter.
The red-turning-black fruits appear in autumn and they're just as showy as the flowers. Birds love them.
At this height (10-12 feet tall), it's not going to swallow your lawn like a Green Giant arborvitea or southern magnolia, so is a good choice for dignified screening of stuff you'd rather not see.
Susy is a hybrid seedling of Eskimo that is itself a hybrid of V. utile and Cayuga (itself a seedling of V. carlesii x V. x carlcephaulm). If I kept going you'd suddenly think you were reading Genesis or Numbers in Sunday School.
- evergreen to semi-evergreen screening material that's different from your neighbors' common hollies
- a tough plant for the deep south
- Winter: burgundy
- Spring: dark green
- Summer: dark green
- Fall: burgundy
No problem, get out your handpruners and prune it back to just above a node. A node is where leaves attach to a branch and buds are located there. Viburnums respond well to judicious and thoughtful pruning, just don't sheer them!