Viburnum obovatum 'Compactum' 25/7 Restock shrubby habit

shrubby habit

Maple-leaf oak is endemic to just a handful of high

For the gardener building a serious shade garden

yet the tree remains surprisingly little known in American gardens

silvered and softly veined above

Viburnum obovatum 'Compactum' 25/7 Restock shrubby habitWalter's viburnum is one of the finest small evergreens of the Southern coastal plain, a fine textured native named for Thomas Walter, the eighteenth century Carolina planter and botanist who first described the species in his Flora Caroliniana. The botanical name obovatum points to the little obovate leaves, broadest toward the tip, and 'Compactum' gathers all of that into a low, rounded, mounding form densely set with small leaves and smothered in