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Blossom
color: Clusters of creamy white flowers
Bloom time: Late May to mid June
Fruit: Clusters of fruit that turn blue in
August and last all winter
Size: 3' to 5' tall and wide
Shape: Upright, mounded shrub
Uses: Shrub border, hedge, screen or naturalistic
planting. Attracts birds.
Hardiness: Zones 3-8
Native: to much of North America
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Viburnum 'Blue Muffin' is perfect for
small gardens or any place you want a small shrub. It's only
one-third the size of regular Viburnums, reaching a height
of 3 to 5-feet tall and about as wide. Because of its small
size, it's very useful as a foundation plant or low hedge,
or to place in a mixed shrub and perennial border. The clusters
of white flowers in the spring followed by the blue fruit
in the fall make it a very attractive ornamental plant. Like
its species parent, Viburnum dentatum, birds are very attracted
to the fruit on this plant and will strip it clean during
fall migrations. If any fruit are left in spring, they help
early migrants during cold snaps in April. The multibranched
shrub also provides good cover and nesting spots for many
birds. It's very easy to grow in sun and part shade and in
moist to drier soils. Self pollinating.
What you'll receive:
2-year, field-grown plants with 12 to 18-inch long stems and
shipped bareroot (no soil or pot)
and dormant (no foliage). Learn more about
our plants.
Shipping: $0-$75=$12.00, $75.01-$125=$15, $125.01-$200=$20, >$200=10% of total. Shipped UPS Ground in
spring from early April through mid May.
[Catalog #FS39]
About Viburnums:  Viburnums
are shrubs or small trees with attractive foliage, flowers
and fruit. They are great ornamental landscape plants and
wonderful natives. The fruit attracts most fruit-eating birds,
including bluebirds, brown thrashers, cedar waxwings, gray
catbirds, robins and thrushes. They are virtually pest free
and easy to grow. They can be used as specimens, in a mixed
border, as a hedge or in a naturalized planting.
Grows best in full sun to part shade in average garden soil.
Can tolerate full shade, acid soil and wet but not soggy ground.
Space 4 to 5-feet apart. Prune in late winter to desired shape
and size. Easy to grow.
What's a "bareroot" plant?
 "Bareroot"
is a term that describes how a plant is shipped to you. A
bareroot plant is not in a pot, and is usually dormant (not
actively growing). See the photo to the right that shows what
a bareroot rose looks like. The bareroot plants that we ship
to you were harvested in the fall and placed in cold storage
over the winter to keep them dormant. In the spring, we ship
the bareroot plants to our customers, from early April through
mid May.
Bareroot plants are easy to grow. We include planting instructions
with your order. When you receive your plant, take it out
of the packing material and place it in a bucket of water
so that the roots are completely covered. Let the roots soak
for 4 to 24 hours, then plant it in your garden. Full planting
instructions with photos are available on our planting
shrubs page.
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