Re: [SG] Unknown tree

In a message dated 5/16/99 10:32:22 PM Central Daylight Time,
ranbl@NETSYNC.NET writes:

<< I suspect you are looking at a very old Vibutnum
 Tomentosum-(DoubleFile).  See if the blossoms you describe, are in to
 parallel rowes (ranks) proceding the length of the stem and out to near
 the tip.  This is a wonderfull Viburnum!
 Ran Lydell
  >>

I've loved the pix I've seen of Marie's Doublefile Viburnum  (V. tomentosum
'Mariessii') and even though at best it's rated zone 5 and I'm on upper edge
of zone 4, I bought a small one thru mail order from Bluestone Nursery in
1996.  It's now a bush about 5' or 6' high, growing on the northeast side of
our walkout house, about 4 ft from the foundation (a bit close, I know, but
that's all the bigger my border is there).  So it's not only survived 2
winters in that spot, but thrived.  I hope it's not just because our winters
were mild so far,  and I'm in for a huge dissappointment one of these springs.
It hasn't bloomed for me yet, but it's still very attractive. Do you think
that I'll rarely see flowers on it up here?  Does it bloom on new or old
wood? It has such wonderful leaves and that great horizontal look of the
branching, like a Pagoda Dogwood.

I'd like to hear of others successes and failures with growing trees, shrubs,
and perennials in zones colder than what is written up for them.


Thanks,
Cindy Johnson
White Bear Lake, MN
zone 4a
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