Viburnum 'Prague'
Viburnum x pragense
A fast, large evergreen viburnum with dark, leathery leaves, pink buds opening to flat clusters of fragrant creamy-white flowers in spring and berries that turn red then black into winter, a fine hedge, screen or specimen. Deer tend to avoid it. In the coldest winters it can die back, so shelter it from winter wind.
- Mature size
- 10 × 11 ft
- 3 × 3.5 m, tall × wide
- Hardiness
- Zones 5a–8b
- USDA
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Medium to moist
- Blooms
- Mar–Apr
Viburnum 'Prague' at its mature size
A mature Viburnum 'Prague' grows to about 10 ft tall and 11 ft wide, taller than most people.
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, plantaddicts.com.
Through the year
What Viburnum 'Prague' looks like month by month in a typical zone 6–7 garden.
In leaf · May–Mar
Glossy corrugated dark green leaves.
In flower · Apr
Flat clusters of pink buds opening creamy white.
Photos
Growing Viburnum 'Prague'
- Grows well in
- The Northeast, the Southeast, and the Midwest.
- Growth rate
- Fast
- Good for
- Privacy screen, hedge, specimen, deer resistant, winter interest, fragrant, and fast growing
- Leaves
- Evergreen
- Native to
- China
Spacing for a hedge
VeraScape spaces plants so their grown canopies just touch. For Viburnum 'Prague', that’s about 11 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 Viburnum 'Prague' 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.