Viburnum plicatum tomentosum 'Mariesii' aka Doublefile Viburnum. This cultivar excellent albeit slow to achieve its form. This specimen about twenty years old, south facing, in the shade of some parkway trees: Red Oaks and the Evil Bradford Pear.
Here's the surprise below. I wondered if it was inhabited and my 6'5" neighbor wandered by at the right moment. So I must credit Eric for bottom photo and satisfying my curiosity.
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What a lovely shrub, like floating clouds, with the bonus nest. Is the nest occupied each year? because I used to have robins nesting in my lilacs for several years, but not this year.
Doublefile is one of the best viburnums but you are right it takes a long time to become great--like fine wine. Also need a nice wide space for this plant and someone like Bartlett who knows how to prune it in a correct fashion :)
Prune this plant incorrectly and you marginalize it to "just another nondescript viburnum."
You are so right about the pruning. Living in a condo, no matter how much I explain, somebody always cuts in the wring place at the wrong time, so shape is butchered. That does not excuse the dead wood I keep meaning to address when work slows down. As for design, this is the only original plant left of this bed that I inherited in '94. It should be planted with ample room to spread.
As for the nest: it's the first year I've noticed it.
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