08/01/2025
Viburnum bodnantense, also known as the winter flowering snowball, is a popular shrub known for its beautiful flowers and lovely fragrance, especially in the winter months. Its graceful flowers and robust character make the Viburnum bodnantense an ideal shrub to add colour, fragrance and texture to your garden during the cold months!
Special features:
Viburnum bodnantense flowers in winter, often from November to March.
Flowers appear on bare branches, giving a striking and graceful effect.
Colourful flowers, usually pale pink to white, often in dense cluster form.
In cold temperatures the flowers often remain intact, and at frost the flowering stops temporarily before continuing at thaw.
The flowers emit a sweet, fragrant aroma that is particularly noticeable during mild winter days.
The shrub resists cold temperatures well and thrives in a variety of conditions.
The most well-known and popular is Viburnum bodnantense Dawn with deep pink flowers fading to white because of its strong fragrance and rich flowering.
Charles Lamont with lighter pink flowers and subtler scent flowers a little later than the Dawn and has a more compact growth habit.
In autumn, the leaves turn to warm shades of yellow, orange and red before falling to the ground. After flowering, the berries provide a food source for birds.
This shrub can last for decades and is often planted as a solitary or in borders.
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