Plant Characteristics
- Zone: 5-8
- Height: 6'
- Spread: 10'
- Soil : Widely adaptable
- Growth: Medium to fast
- Uses: Speciman plant, massed group, shrub border
- Fall color: deep purple, red
- Bloom: Abundant, large(4"-6"), flat to mounded cymes
in double rows along branches
It has been said that a garden without
a Viburnum is akin to life without music and art. 'Shasta' is the first
doublefile viburnum cultivar to result from a breeding program for
viburnum improvement. The abundant, large, lacecap inflorescences have
sterile marginal florets that are 1 1/2 times larger than those found
on other cultivars, and often have 5-15 inner sterile florets dispersed
among the center fertile flowers. The growth habit is strongly horizontal,
twice as wide as high. Dark green leaves with 8-12 pairs of nearly straight
veins. Bright red, upright fruit clusters ornamental for several weeks
in late July. Fall coloration is dull purplish-red to maroon.