I have a Viburnum Bod. ‘Charles Lamont’ absolutely covered with blooms outside my sitting room window … it’s also always full of small birds … wrens, bluetits, longtailed tits and dunnocks love it. Its perfume is wonderful.
I chose Charles Lamont because it’s more upright in habit than Dawn and Deben, both of which I’ve grown before.
Having got Charles Lamont I wouldn’t grow the other two now. It is more upright and flowers more reliably in my experience and I absolutely love it.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove - sounds exactly like what I want - so wonderful. And it's great birds like it too I'm completely sold. Also I feel like you + @Fairygirl are answering all my newbie gardening questions so thanks so much!
I also just realised that I have a front garden that if the v. bukrwoodii can cope with south-facing full sun then I can have that one in my currently pretty empty front garden!
I'm not sure how well it would cope with full sun all day - especially in a hotter part of the country. Mine was in an east facing site, with a fair bit of shade for most of the day, even in summer. I dug it up last year and it's going in my front garden where it will get a sunnier site, but only for part of the day in summer. They aren't evergreen in colder areas, which is why I lifted mine. Even in milder winters it dropped too much foliage. I'd have been better with one of the other, reliably evergreen varieties, for the site. It was meant to have whiter flowers which is why I chose it, but frankly - it doesn't look that different to the others in that respect either.
It's a place where beautiful isn't enough of a word....
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
Behind it is a trellis hiding the bins ... it's covered with Clematis cirrhosa 'Freckles'. Its very happy there, the house the otherside of the path (that's its garage wall you can see there... our house is a bit lower down the hill than next door) keeps the sun off that corner until well into the afternoon for most of the year so it's quite a shady corner. Hellebores and hostas are also happy there.
By the way, that Vib. bod. has never been cut back or pruned in any way.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove & @GardenerSuze, thanks so much for your recommendation! I now have a beautiful little Charles Lamont from Burncoose that I love Still has a couple of flowers and everything! Hopefully she's not too close to the wall, I may need to move her forwards a bit.
How long do you think it'll take for her to look a little more tree-like ?
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Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
@Dovefromabove - sounds exactly like what I want - so wonderful. And it's great birds like it too
I also just realised that I have a front garden that if the v. bukrwoodii can cope with south-facing full sun then I can have that one in my currently pretty empty front garden!
Mine was in an east facing site, with a fair bit of shade for most of the day, even in summer. I dug it up last year and it's going in my front garden where it will get a sunnier site, but only for part of the day in summer.
They aren't evergreen in colder areas, which is why I lifted mine. Even in milder winters it dropped too much foliage. I'd have been better with one of the other, reliably evergreen varieties, for the site. It was meant to have whiter flowers which is why I chose it, but frankly - it doesn't look that different to the others in that respect either.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
It’s about 9 years since we planted it …
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
What do you have growing behind? If my honeysuckle would be able to grow behind the v. bod. that'd be even better.
I'm sold
Its very happy there, the house the otherside of the path (that's its garage wall you can see there... our house is a bit lower down the hill than next door) keeps the sun off that corner until well into the afternoon for most of the year so it's quite a shady corner. Hellebores and hostas are also happy there.
By the way, that Vib. bod. has never been cut back or pruned in any way.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
How long do you think it'll take for her to look a little more tree-like
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Plenty more space now
Got to sort out our muddy lawn!