General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Shrub
Tree
Life cycle: Perennial
Sun Requirements: Full Sun to Partial Shade
Partial or Dappled Shade
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Height: 8-10 feet
Plant Spread: 6 feet
Leaves: Good fall color
Deciduous
Other: foliage emerges bronzy-green, matures to dark green
Fruit: Showy
Edible to birds
Other: Red
Flowers: Showy
Fragrant
Flower Color: White
Other: pink buds open to white
Flower Time: Late winter or early spring
Spring
Late spring or early summer
Uses: Windbreak or Hedge
Wildlife Attractant: Birds
Butterflies
Resistances: Deer Resistant
Propagation: Seeds: Self fertile
Pollinators: Moths and Butterflies
Flies
Bees
Various insects
Miscellaneous: Monoecious
Awards and Recognitions: RHS AGM
Other: 2003 Great Plant Picks Award Winner

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Common names
  • Bodnant Viburnum
  • Arrowwood
Also sold as:
  • Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn'
  • Pink Dawn

Photo Gallery
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Date: 2014-01-29
Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn' (V. farreri x V. grandiflorum) - Wi
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Date: 2014-01-29
Viburnum x bodnantense 'Dawn' (V. farreri x V. grandiflorum) - Wi
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Botanical Garden near Brussels)
Date: 2019-01-23
Location: My garden in Ontario, Canada
Date: 2021-04-07
No late frosts to kill the buds this year
Location: St Louis - MoBOT
Date: 2022-03-15
Location: Longwood Gardens, Kennett Square, Pennsylvania
Date: 2022-03-23
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Date: 2019-01-23
Location: Bea's garden
Date: 2022
Location: Bea's garden
Date: 2022
Location: Bea's garden
Date: 2022
Location: Wallsend, Tyne and Wear, England UK 
Date: 10 June 2007
Viburnum × bodnantense 'Dawn'
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2023-04-26
Location: Botanical Garden Meise (Belgium)
Date: 2017-03-25
Location: Millcreek, Utah, United States
Date: 2019-03-11
Location: Nationale Plantentuin Meise (Brussels)
Date: 2019-01-23
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2021-10-20

photo by: Salicyna
Location: Salt Lake City, Utah, United States
Date: 2021-09-18

Date: 2017-02-22
Location: Alnwick Garden, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2009-02-23
Location: New York Botanical Gardens Bronx NY
Date: 2018-04-28
Full sun.
Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2010-04-01
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-01-22

Photo courtesy of Joy Creek Nursery

Photo courtesy of Singing Tree Gardens Nursery
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Willamette Valley Oregon
Date: Spring 2010
Starts blooming in late December here.

Photo Courtesy of Secret Garden Growers.
  • Uploaded by Joy
Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2010-04-01
Location: Alnwick Garden, Northumberland, UK
Date: 2008-02-25
Location: Western Washington
Date: 2014-12-28
Location: Cedarhome, Washington
Date: 2010-01-03

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