Dwarf Evergreen Snowball Viburnum ‘Conoy’ – 3 Gallon Pot

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8b  Find Your Zone

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Plant Type:  Evergreen to Deciduous Flowering Shrub (depending on location)

Flower Color:  White, Pink buds

Flower Size:  3″ wide clusters

Flowering Period:  Spring

Flower Type:  Single

Fragrant Flowers:  No

Foliage Color:  Deep Green

Fragrant Foliage:  No

Berries:  Yes

Berry Color:  Black, if pollinated

Attracts:  Butterflies, Visual Attention

Resistances:  Deer, Disease, Insect, Wet Soil

One of our favorites, ‘Conoy’ is the densest growing of all Viburnums growing in our gardens. At a height of 4 to 5 feet tall and 7 to 8 feet wide, we’d have no problem suggesting this super hardy and low maintenance evergreen flowering powerhouse shrub as a home foundation plant. LOADS of 3 inch diameter clusters with pink buds that burst open to lightly fragrant white flowers nearly cover the very deep green and glossy 2.5 inch long leaves in spring. In the winter the leaves take on a handsome purplish shade. If pollinated with another V. burkwoodi variety, in late summer and early fall the ripening clusters of one-third-inch long berries transition in stages from red to black as the fruit mature.

This hybrid Viburnum was developed by the late Dr. Donald Egolf who worked for more than 30 years as a plant breeder at the U.S. National Arboretum and introduced a number of landscape plants now commonplace in our gardens. ‘Conoy’ is a cross of Viburnum utile, an evergreen from central China, with Viburnum x burkwoodii ‘Park Farm Hybrid’, also an evergreen.