Dawn Arrowwood / Viburnum Hedge Plants

Dawn Arrowwood / Viburnum Hedge Plants

Viburnum x bodnantense Dawn is a deciduous, winter-flowering ornamental shrub that can be used as decorative hedging. It's suitable for any garden with averagely fertile soil.
Dawn is good for hedges up to about 3 metres high.

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Viburnum hedge plants are only delivered pot-grown, year-round.
All our hedge plants are measured by their height in centimetres above the ground (the pots aren't measured).

Spacing a Viburnum bodnantense Dawn hedge:

Plant Viburnum bodnantense Dawn hedging at 3 plants per metre, 33cm apart.

General description:

This medium-sized shrub is one of the best winter-flowering bushes around, flowering intermittently on naked wood from October through to April. It has pink, tubular blooms, which are carried in numerous small clusters and give off a sweet fragrance that cuts through gloomy days. Dawn is upright in habit and it'll respond to clipping very well, developing a dense thicket of twigs. It's a fine hedge plant, although we suggest having a look at the evergreen Viburnum tinus Eve Price for this purpose.
Once established, it makes an excellent host for a small clematis to provide flowers in spring and summer. Like other viburnums, Dawn has excellent autumn foliage colour, which is a marvellous bronze on this variety.

We really recommend planting Dawn in front of evergreens to proved a backdrop for its pale flowers, or beside a seated area or path where its scent can be enjoyed.

History & Trivia

Viburnum x bodnantense is a hybrid of Viburnum farreri and Viburnum grandiflorum. The cross was first made in Edinburgh in 1933, but those seedlings were never propagated; Dawn was raised from the same cross repeated at Bodnant, north Wales, in 1934-35, and is the hybrid's type clone. The hybrid won the RHS Award of Merit in 1947, and Dawn itself holds the RHS's current Award of Garden Merit -- a plant that's been proving itself in British winter gardens for nearly eighty years.