Dawn Bodnantense Viburnum            vi-BER-num bod-nant-EN-see

• Deciduous shrub, 6-10 ft (1.8-3 m), upright.  Blooms in fall and winter after leaf fall.  Fragrant pink flowers in 2.5-5 cm wide heads.   Wet weather and frosts may limit flowering display.  Branches often forced inside for a winter bouquet.  Leaves opposite, simple, to 10 cm long, lanceolate to ovate-obovate, serrate.
• Sun.
• Hardy to USDA Zone 4       'Dawn' is the "type" of the hybrid, a cross of two Asiatic species, V. farreri and V. grandiflorum.
• A few other cultivars:
• 'Charles Lamont' - dark pink flowers, flower cluster somewhat larger than 'Dawn'
• 'Deben' - stiff habit, 8-10 ft (2.4-3 m) tall, flowers whitish, turning red, slightly fragrant
• 'Pink Dawn' - upright habit, flowers pink, rose in the bud, fragrant, deeply veined leaves. Probably often sold as 'Dawn' and vice-versa.
• bodnantense: refers to Bodnant Gardens, North Wales, where the hybrid was raised in 1935.
• Oregon State Univ. campus: behind Dixon Lodge, near Jefferson Ave.