Koreanspice Viburnum
Viburnum carlesii
Grown for snowball clusters of intensely fragrant flowers in early spring, red buds opening pink and fading to white, on a dense, rounded shrub for borders, foundations or a hedge. Deer leave it alone, and it takes clay. Prune right after bloom, and remove suckers from grafted plants.
- Mature size
- 4.5 × 4.5 ft
- 1.3 × 1.4 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 4a–7b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
- Fall color Oct–Nov
Koreanspice Viburnum at its mature size
A mature Koreanspice Viburnum grows 3.5 to 5 feet tall and 3.5 to 6 feet wide.
Drawn to scale beside a 5 ft 9 in person. With VeraScape, you see it at this size in your own yard.
Typical mature size, unpruned. Sources: Missouri Botanical Garden.
Through the year
What Koreanspice Viburnum looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
Dormant · Dec–Mar
Bare gray stems.
In flower · Apr
Round snowball clusters of white flowers from pink buds.
In leaf · May–Sep
Dull dark green to gray-green oval leaves.
Fall · Oct–Nov
Muted burgundy-red to coppery, variable.
Photos
Growing Koreanspice Viburnum
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Midwest, and the Pacific Northwest.
- Growth rate
- Slow
- Good for
- Hedge, small space, foundation planting, specimen, deer resistant, fall color, and fragrant
- Leaves
- Drops its leaves in winter
- Native to
- Korea and Japan
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Koreanspice Viburnum, that’s about 4.5 ft apart, center to center.
Place a row in your own yard and VeraScape spaces them at their mature width, so you can see whether they’ll crowd the walk.
See Koreanspice Viburnum in your yard before you dig
Visualize it at its true size, alongside the rest of your design.
Other viburnums
Koreanspice Viburnum
Arrowwood Viburnum
Viburnum 'Prague'
Chinese Snowball ViburnumAll drawn to the same scale.