This Forum will close on Wednesday 27 March, 2024. Please refer to the announcement on the Discussions page for further detail.
Viburnum × bodnantense Charles Lamont - buds not opening
puschkinia
Posts: 229
Hi everyone
I planted this viburnum bodnantense in February 2022, so it's still fairly young. It's on a west facing border that's pretty shady in winter, it's open to the sky
Over winter 2023, one year after planting, it had some flowers though not a huge number. This year it grew new, tall stems and seemed to be doing well, but despite being covered in buds not a single one has opened.
Is this just because it's young, or might there be something wrong?
I planted this viburnum bodnantense in February 2022, so it's still fairly young. It's on a west facing border that's pretty shady in winter, it's open to the sky
Over winter 2023, one year after planting, it had some flowers though not a huge number. This year it grew new, tall stems and seemed to be doing well, but despite being covered in buds not a single one has opened.
Is this just because it's young, or might there be something wrong?
0
Posts
"Have nothing in your garden that you don't know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful."
I would have thought west would be fine but are there buildings or something obscuring the light? Is it a hot spot in high summer in the evening or have you lost the sun by then?
In the sticks near Peterborough
@GardenerSuze Ah... oops. We have tall fences all around our small garden, so in winter almost all the garden is in shade all day. In summer it gets a nice amount of sun in the late afternoon/evening but not in winter. Might this lack of flowering happen every year
@nutcutlet Oh I see, thanks for telling me. How do you tell flower from leaf buds?
My neighbour grew one in an east facing border limited morning sun. Flowering did vary but most years just a few flowers. I would expect this shrub to flower from only a young specimen.
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.