Lantana Viburnum

The Viburnum Lantana (Viburnum 'Lantana'), is a vigorous, handsome, urban-tolerant large shrub with grayish dark-green leaves that are leathery in texture! Plus profuse, creamy-white, flat-topped clusters of blossoms.

Sometimes known as a Wayfaring tree, it has an excellent red, burgundy, purple and mahogany fall color, and the foliage remains on the plant well into the fall season.

Thriving in woodland and woodland edges, Lantana can be a multi-stemmed tree growing tall or allowed to remain shrubby in form. With stout branches, its shape is ornamental, rounded, multi-branching, plus both upright and spreading.

It produces orange-red berries in August that turn a bluish-black in fall. The fruit causes mild upsets when eaten unripe or in large quantities, but birds and wildlife love them!

How to Use Lantana Viburnum In The Landscape

Lantana matures to 15' with an equal spread but can be pruned to any size! Creating a gorgeous specimen, focal point and foundation planting that has eye-catching curb appeal!

Be the envy of your neighborhood with a row separating your property from the road, or use as "Living Walls" for Outdoor Garden Rooms that add tranquil privacy.

Fringe a ring of these around your seating areas, fire-pits, pergolas or garden swing to create an outdoor space you can't wait to get lost in! Thick privacy and relaxing textures whisk the rest of the world away.

Prune into a small tree or keep as a dense shrub! Viburnum form dense colonies with basal suckering that can be encouraged or easily pruned away once a year!

Fantastic shelterbelt and windbreak shrubs, the lush privacy from the dense branching even provides screening in winter! Backdrop your beds and borders or anchor your other garden landscaping!

You can also try a staggered zig-zag to create a mass planting on a slope or large bare patch. Allowing them to colonize slopes and hard-to-mow areas for erosion control!

#ProPlantTips For Care

An easily grown plant, Lantana prefers well-drained soil in full sun. They can grow in heavy clay soil, but grows best in alkaline soils.

Tolerant of both full sun and part shade, these hardy plants thrive in zones 4-7. Appreciating some afternoon shade in the hotter growing zones during summer.

Once established, Lantana Viburnum handles dry soils and is drought tolerant, pest and disease-free and rarely damaged by deer.

Mainly grown as an ornamental tree or shrub for its flowers and berries. So, be sure to only prune right after the flowers have just finished so you don't remove next year's blooms! Any pruning however will remove your songbird's fall feast.

Order this highly adaptable and tolerant Lantana Viburnum tree or shrub today from Nature Hills and set the stage for fantastic curb appeal tomorrow!