Guelder-rose
Viburnum opulus
In Dutch: Gelderse roos
ShrubsCollection: Native species
Properties
- Height
- 1.5 to 3 m
- Spread
- About 2.5 m
- Full grown after
- 4 to 6 years
- Sun
- Sun to partial shade
- Soil
- Moist, ideally loam or clay
- Water
- Plenty: its roots are shallow
- Maintenance
- Low: remove old stems now and then
- Flowers
- May and June, white
- For bees
- Little: some nectar and pollen in June
- Hay fever
- Not or weakly allergenic
- Leaves
- Drop in autumn
- Hardy
- Yes
- Native
- Yes
- Poisonous
- Mildly: do not eat the raw berries
- Pricks or stings
- No
- Price, young
- About €1.65 to €2.40 each, 40-100 cm, bare-root
- Price, grown
- About €38 to €81 each, 150-200 cm, with root ball or in a pot
Through the year
- Leaf
- April to October
- Flower
- May to June
- Fruit
- August to February