Re: Viburnum damage

**A*@aol.com**

Madam,

Without sounding new-agey, I find that the lessons that I learn from 
gardening and gardening with other people as a community gardener, 
enlightening.  Part of the joy and challenge of gardening is that nature 
intervenes in interesting ways with all of our plans. 

Practically, I would contact some of the better plantsmen in your area, to 
see if a viburnum robuscum of suffient size was available for love or money 
in your area.  I'd also ask them for technical advice. It is likely that they 
may suggest a better place for your senescent shrub.  
Sometimes fortuitous things happen - if this shrub is popular in your area, 
some person may be uprooting them to replace them with roses, etc. You might 
be saving a shrub or two from the chipper/shredder.  Stranger things have 
happened. Cast your net as far as a pick-up truck can go in the morning.  You 
may want to, if you are sufficiently obsessed, to put advertisements in the 
local shopping papers, or post your query on-line or in local nurseries where 
plant folks  congregate.  

Your old shrub might be best replanted elsewhere on your property.  Sometimes 
new surroundings do wonders with a shrub, as with people. Or donate it to a 
local community garden!

Another option is to listen to  the Stone's "You Can't Always Get What You 
Want, " and think of options of what you might plant there.  Sometimes, an 
odd piece of discarded statuary, an urn with plants that will do well  in 
that microclimate, or another shrub would give enough of a contrast to give 
the space greater visual interest. 

Best wishes,
Adam Honigman

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