Viburnum x burkwoodii 'Park Farm Hybrid' Low Stock remembered the bloom that comes

remembered the bloom that comes before the leaves

and the fragrant spring flowers perfume the whole area before the long harvest begins

and the same draw for Cloudless Sulphur and Sleepy Orange butterflies that feed and breed on the plant

Viburnum semitomentosum

Viburnum x burkwoodii 'Park Farm Hybrid' Low Stock remembered the bloom that comesSome viburnums are grown for the eye and some for the nose; the Burkwood viburnums are firmly the latter. Viburnum x burkwoodii is a cross between the intensely fragrant Viburnum carlesii and the glossy evergreen Viburnum utile, first raised by the brothers Burkwood and their partner Skipwith at their nursery near Kingston on Thames in England in 1924. 'Park Farm Hybrid' is a sister seedling from that same celebrated work, selected for a bolder flower