{"id":159,"date":"2010-03-27T13:06:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T17:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/03\/27\/viburnums-for-privacy-screening\/"},"modified":"2010-03-27T13:06:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T17:06:00","slug":"viburnums-for-privacy-screening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/03\/27\/viburnums-for-privacy-screening\/","title":{"rendered":"Viburnums for Privacy Screening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S648VxNcLII\/AAAAAAAAAMA\/sxVXKVdbFII\/s1600\/Viburnum+rhytid+%27Allegheny.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"TEXT-ALIGN: center; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; WIDTH: 320px; DISPLAY: block; HEIGHT: 240px; CURSOR: hand\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5453362543476878466\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_ZzNIw3ADWQo\/S648VxNcLII\/AAAAAAAAAMA\/sxVXKVdbFII\/s320\/Viburnum+rhytid+%27Allegheny.jpg\" \/><\/a> photo: the clean summer foliage of &#8216;Allegheny&#8217; viburnum<\/p>\n<div> <\/div>\n<div>Must you plant an evergreen hedge when a semi-evergreen flowering shrub is fine for the task?<\/div>\n<div>Leatherleaf viburnum hybrid cultivars &#8216;Allegheny&#8217; and &#8216;Willowwood&#8217; are 60% evergreen, dropping their foliage very late in  autumn in U.S.D.A. zones 6 and 7-a. &#8216;Willowwood is preferred over &#8216;Allegheny&#8217; in areas of zone 6 and 7 where powdery mildew disease may be a problem. <\/div>\n<div>Prague viburnum (<em>Viburnum pragense<\/em>) is the only &#8220;true&#8221; evergreen viburnum. It possesses lustrous dark green foliage year-round and grows to 9-10 feet. Its height is tall enough to become a beautiful privacy screen and noise barrier from the neighbors and traffic.<\/div>\n<div>All three viburnums are excellent growers. They have a distinct advantage over most conifer species used in privacy screening. These lovely viburnums flower in late spring and early summer, something the conifers don&#8217;t offer. <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>photo: the clean summer foliage of &#8216;Allegheny&#8217; viburnum Must you plant an evergreen hedge when a semi-evergreen flowering shrub is fine for the task? Leatherleaf viburnum hybrid cultivars &#8216;Allegheny&#8217; and &#8216;Willowwood&#8217; are 60% evergreen, dropping their foliage very late in autumn in U.S.D.A. zones 6 and 7-a. &#8216;Willowwood is preferred over &#8216;Allegheny&#8217; in areas of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}