This large bush grows up to two meters and the same across and starts flowering at the nastiest time of the year, at the beginning of winter, in November, in the midst of decay and cold wetness.
What a pleasing and welcome sight!
I like it much better than the more well known Viburnum bodnantense "Dawn" , flowering a little later, because "Dawn" has a stiff upright growth with branches sometimes growing out in awkward unnatural angles. V. farreri has a pleasing vase-like growth habit and makes a form of a bush like in a children's drawing, branches long and slightly curving to the outside. Of course only, if you don't mess it up by cutting it back undiscriminately with a hedge trimmer, as so many people do ... leave it be and it will naturally grow into a very pleasing shape. It looks especially good with a dark background of a yew hedge or other evergreen conifers or rhododendrons.
In addition it has the most delicate scent - at this time especially valued. Its whiff gives the promise of a coming spring and that better times are sure to follow.
The genus Viburnum has many more valuable medium- and large sized shrubs for every season that flower at different times throughout the year.
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