Viburnum opulus Fruit Bark is rustic and fissured

Bark is rustic and fissured

Easy to grow but harder to establish on alkaline or chalk soils

Its five-lobed leaves are a brilliant shade of shrimp pink when they unfurl in spring

Needs to be treated as an ericaceous plant for best performance

Viburnum opulus Fruit Bark is rustic and fissuredA vigorous shrub of spreading habit with 3 5 lobed, maple like leaves which colour in autumn. Golf ball size clusters of white, lacecap like flowers borne in profusion in June or July followed by red, berry like fruits in autumn which often persist long into winter and attracts wildlife. Plant in partial or full shade in well drained, moist soil. H6