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Laurustinus Viburnum 
​Viburnum tinus

Featured February, 2019
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Common Name: laurustinus viburnum
Botanical Name: Viburnum tinus
Family: Adoxaceae
Genus: Viburnum
Species: tinus
Plant Type:  broadleaf evergreen
Form: upright rounded, dense
Mature Size: 6-12 ft (1.8-3.7 m) height & width
Growth: 
Origin: Mediterranean, southern Europe
Hardiness Zone: 7 to 9
Foliage: opposite, simple,, narrow oblong 2 to 4” (4 to 10 cm) long, dark green with pale green undersides
Flowers: clusters of fragrant, small pink buds that open to white, blooms Feb to April
Fruit: clusters of metallic (6 mm) blue berries that mature to black
Exposure: sun to shade
Soil: soil tolerant but prefers moist well drained soils
Uses: border, accent, winter garden, coastal, hedgerow, hedge, woodland, pollinator garden
Propagation:  cuttings in July, August (semi-hardwood)
Pruning: late spring, early summer
​Problems: leaf spot, powdery & downy mildew, the fungus Botryosphaeria dieback, root rot
Cultivars: V. tinus ‘Variegatum’ has variegated leaves.
Comments: Very ornamental broadleaf evergreen shrub that looks great no matter what the season. This bushy shrub features deep green leaves, clusters of attractive pink and white fragrant flowers combined with iridescence blue berries. A great addition for winter garden as it flowers when little else does.  It's also salt and drought tolerant, deer resistant and attracts bees, butterflies and other pollinators. ​​
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    • Rose Insects & Diseases
    • Pruning Roses
    • Rose Sawfly
    • Rose Bloom Balling
  • Pruning
    • Pruning Tools
    • Winter Pruning
    • Pruning Grapes
    • Pruning Clematis
    • Prune Your Own Garden Registration
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    • Seeding & Sodding Lawns
    • Lawn Maintenance Schedule
    • Spring Lawn Care
    • Moss in Lawns
    • Lawn Grub Control
  • Mulching
    • Living Mulches - Groundcovers
  • Propagation
    • Growing Seeds Outdoors
    • Growing Seeds Indoors
    • Taking Cuttings
    • Saving Tomato Seeds
    • Seed & Plant Catalogues
  • How to Garden Topics
    • Planting Know-How
    • Soil Building
    • Drought Gardening
    • Sheet Mulching, Lasagna Gardening
    • Cover Crops
    • Composting
    • Compost Tea
    • Planting Spring Flowering Bulbs
    • Houseplant Winter Care
  • Growing Food
    • Taming Tomatoes
    • Speeding up Tomato Harvest
    • Tomato Tips
    • Tomato Troubles
    • Crop Rotation, Succession & Companion Planting
    • Growing Potatoes
    • Harvesting
    • Winter Veggie Gardening
  • Plant Pests 1
    • Plant Pests Part 2 - Controlling Insects
    • Viburnum Leaf Beetle
    • Dormant Oil/Lime Sulfur
    • Japanese Beetles
    • Peony Blotch/Measles
    • Slugs & Snails
    • Horsetail, the Weed
    • June Beetle
    • Powdery Mildew
    • Soil Solarization
    • Rhododendron Leaf Spot
    • Plant Rusts
  • Container Growing
    • Choosing a Container
  • Monthly Flower Arrangements
  • Feeding Plants 101
    • Fertilizers & Ratios
    • Nutritional Deficiencies & Toxicities
    • Organic Plant Food
  • Plant of the Month
    • Colourful Fall Plants
    • Aubretia, Rock Cress
    • Astilbes
    • Aucuba, Japanese Spotted Laurel
    • Autumn Crocus
    • Beautyberry, Callicarpa
    • Black-eyed Susans
    • Bleeding Heart, Lamprocapnos spectabilis
    • Dahlias
    • Devil's Walking Stick, Aralia spinosa
    • Dwarf Burning Bush
    • Fall Asters
    • Flowering Currants
    • Flowering Quince
    • Garden Phlox
    • Heathers
    • Hellebores, Lenten roses
    • Himalayan Sweet Box
    • Jack-in-the-pulpit, cobra lily
    • Laurustinus viburnum, Viburnum tinus
    • Lavenders
    • Lily-of-the-Valley Shrub, Pieris japonica
    • Mediterranean Spurge
    • Montana Clematis
    • Mountain Ash
    • Oriental Poppies
    • Paperbark Maple
    • Pink Dawn Bodnant Viburnum
    • Poinsettia
    • Ornamental Kale
    • Peruvian Lily, Alstroemeria
    • Persian Silk Tree
    • Japanese Anemones
    • Japanese Forest Grass
    • Japanese Maples
    • Japanese Skimmia
    • Rose of Sharon
    • Sasanqua, Winter Camellia
    • Strawberry Tree, Pacific Madrone
    • Stewartia
    • Torch Lily, Kniphofia uvaria
    • Tree Peonies
    • Tuberous Begonias
    • Virginia Creeper
    • Weigela
    • Winterhazel, Corylopsis
    • Wintergreen, Gaultheria procumbens
    • Witch Hazel
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