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Viburnum oculus Roseum is an Old Fashioned Snowball Bush. Learn how to grow Snowball bush, and enjoy this heirloom plant in your own garden.

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Viburnum opulus Roseum  was often grown in the gardens of our grandparents. It is one of the oldest known garden viburnums, and has been around for a very long time.

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Opulus roseum is a deciduous flowering shrub.The flowers are beautiful and can be cut and brought into the house.

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Viburnum Opulus Roseum can grow to be quite tall, and can reach a height and width of up to twelve feet.

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The flowers are round with double three inch blooms, which start off as an apple green color and then gradually turn more creamy with undertones of green.

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Roseum is a sterile cultivar, and will not produce any berries in the fall. This plant was originally known as Viburnum opulus ‘Sterilis’.

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Viburnum species in general can be propagated easily by both softwood and hardwood cuttings.

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Here is a small bouquet of snowball bush cuttings, and future bushes to be grown by propagation.

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Dip the tip of the cutting into rooting hormone, and plant in a soilless medium. New roots will form within the next several months.

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The best place to plant a Viburnum snowball bush is in full sun, for best growth and flowering.

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Generally snowball bushes bloom from mid spring to early summer, and put on a beautiful display every year.

For more information, see the tutorial!