Viburnum obovatum 'Compactum' 25/7 Restock almost columnar

almost columnar

yet the tree remains surprisingly little known in American gardens

The reddish-brown bark peels in long fibrous strips down a straight

shrubby habit

In gardens the silky green fans of leaves form large patches

Viburnum obovatum 'Compactum' 25/7 Restock almost columnarWalter's viburnum is one of the finest small evergreens of the Southern coastal plain, a fine textured native named for Thomas Walter, the eighteenth century Carolina planter and botanist who first described the species in his Flora Caroliniana. The botanical name obovatum points to the little obovate leaves, broadest toward the tip, and 'Compactum' gathers all of that into a low, rounded, mounding form densely set with small leaves and smothered in