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Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Posted by Craig Sailor @ 09:35:00 pm

This is my Viburnum burkwoodii. I can't say it's my favorite shrub but this time of year it really shines. And smells. It smells great, actually - perfuming the spring air with a sweet scent.

My 10 year old plant is about 10 feet tall and eight feet wide. It has a very airy habit and is semi deciduous. This is the time of year when 3 inch balls of white flowers fill the air with scent and (best of all) it never needs pruning (assuming you plant it in a place to grow to its full dimensions.)

If you have the space, I recommend it.

Categories: Flowers

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Craig Sailor is the Arts & Entertainment editor at The News Tribune. Last year he planted his first vegetable garden. Focusing on unusual varieties, “Freak of Nature” returns for 2008 with a new crop of uncommon vegetables and flowers. This year he’ll try yin yang beans, giant pumpkins, blue poppies and mutant sunflowers. He gardens at his North End Tacoma home and sneaks seeds in to his mother’s garden at Willapa Bay when she’s not looking. .

Sue Kidd is the Lifestyle Editor at The News Tribune. She is a devoted vegetable gardener, but otherwise a tragic mess at growing just about anything else. Her current obsessions are growing tomatoes on a trellis and trying to convince all her South Hill neighbors to ditch the chemicals and go green in the garden (they are very suspicious of her). She’ll blog about garden gadgets, the latest garden trends and her current garden disasters. She is also the ringleader for the Home&Garden section, so e-mail her with thoughts/rants/questions/bizarre observations. sue.kidd@thenewstribune.com. Use it.

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