Viburnum ‘Lord Byron’ 25/6 Restock arching silhouette

arching silhouette

glossy leaves emerge gray-green

became the namesake when Nicaise Auguste Desvaux formally described the species in 1827 as Nephrodium kunthii

a use taken up again by modern herbalists

and even brief flooding once established

Viburnum ‘Lord Byron’ 25/6 Restock arching silhouetteThe hybrid that earned a name the hard way. Viburnum 'Lord Byron' is a Southern bred cross of Viburnum obovatum, Walter's viburnum, with Viburnum rufidulum, the rusty blackhaw, created by the plantsman Paul Cox of the San Antonio Botanical Garden and named for his son. Now for the Woodlanders chapter. This viburnum lived at the nursery for years like a minor character who keeps stealing the scene: unidentified, a little mysterious, and, in all