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How to plant and care for Viburnum (farreri)
Viburnum farreri
🌸 Flower
🔁 Perennial
Clusters of sweetly scented pink-white flowers on bare branches from November to March. Plant one where you walk past it in winter.
When to plant and care for it
JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Flowers
Prune
Timed for a typical UK garden (last frost mid-April). The app uses your own town's frost dates.
Growing Viburnum (farreri): what it needs
- Light
- Part shade · 6+ hours a day
- Watering
- Water well for the first summer, then in dry spells
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil
- Spacing
- 2 m
- Height
- 2.5 m
- In pots
- Best in the ground
- Feeding
- Balanced feed in spring
- Hardiness
- USDA zones 5–8
Step by step
- On planting day
Plant
Plant at the same depth as it was in its pot, 2 m apart, and firm in.
- 0–1 days after “Plant”
Water In Well
Give a full can of water, then keep moist for the first few weeks while roots establish.
- 7–14 days after “Water In Well”
Mulch Around the Base
Spread 5 cm of compost or bark around the plant, keeping it off the stems.
Every year
- JanuaryIn Flower
Winter scent on bare stems.
- AprilPrune
After flowering, remove one or two of the oldest stems at the base.
