{"id":584,"date":"2010-12-07T13:39:31","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:39:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/?p=584"},"modified":"2010-12-07T13:39:31","modified_gmt":"2010-12-07T18:39:31","slug":"december-garden-classic-prague-viburnum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/2010\/12\/07\/december-garden-classic-prague-viburnum\/","title":{"rendered":"December Garden Classic &#8211; Prague Viburnum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Garden Classics: \u00a0a monthly retrospective\u00a0featuring a singular plant species either under-planted or relatively unknown to gardeners living in the Southern Appalachian Region.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_589\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Viburnum-pragense1.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-589\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-589\" title=\"Viburnum pragense\" src=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Viburnum-pragense1-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Viburnum-pragense1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/12\/Viburnum-pragense1-1024x685.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-589\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Prague Viburnum in early May<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Prague viburnum (<em>Viburnum x pragense<\/em>) is a lovely evergreen shrub, which combines all the best traits of its parents (<em>V. rhytidophyllum<\/em> and <em>V. utile<\/em>). It is\u00a0 winter hardy throughout the Southern Appalachian region (USDA zones 6 and 7). \u00a0As the name indicates, this hybrid viburnum hails from the Czech Republic. It\u00a0grows rapidly to a mature height and spread of 8 &#8211; 10 feet.<\/p>\n<p>The rose pink colored floral buds begin to open in early May and lightly fragrant, creamy white\u00a0flowers bloom for 2-3 weeks. Its lustrous dark\u00a0 evergreen foliage is comprised of 2 &#8211; 4 inch elliptical shape leaves. Prague viburnum is a teriffic stand alone specimen shrub or you may group several as a hedge or privacy screen. It\u00a0serves as\u00a0an effective foil against peering or noisy neighbors when planted in one or more rows 6 &#8211; 8 foot apart.<\/p>\n<p>Plant in any moderately drained garden soil and in a full sun to partial shade exposure. Disease and insect pests seem to leave this viburnum alone. Moderate resistance to deer feeding is reported, perhaps useless information if the deer are hungry.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Rarely do\u00a0I pruned my\u00a015- year old\u00a0Prague viburnum, only when it\u00a0attempts to crowd out a nearby shrub in my admittedly overplanted garden.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Garden Classics: \u00a0a monthly retrospective\u00a0featuring a singular plant species either under-planted or relatively unknown to gardeners living in the Southern Appalachian Region. Prague viburnum (Viburnum x pragense) is a lovely evergreen shrub, which combines all the best traits of its parents (V. rhytidophyllum and V. utile). It is\u00a0 winter hardy throughout the Southern Appalachian region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10,602,7,1],"tags":[636],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584"}],"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=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":591,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/whatgrowsthere.com\/grow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}