Common Name: Snowball Tree Latin Name: Viburnum opulus ‘Roseum’Soil: Moderately fertile, moist, well-drained soilPosition: Full sun or partial shadeFlowering period/colour: May-June/ WhiteHardiness: Fully hardyEventual height/spread: 3.5m/3.5mSpecial features: Balls of snowy white flowers over spring and summer.This vigorous shrub is well-known for its highly distinctive pure white flowers that are held in snowball-like clusters over late spring and summer. The unusual flower balls are popular with insects, bees and butterflies due to their sweet floral scent. The leaves are lobed and are dark green over spring and summer, later turning red in autumn. This bushy shrub can make an attractive screen and it also works well at the back of a shrub border.