welcome to Hort tube where we talk all things gardening my name is Jim Putnam and this is a Shindo by Burnham this is Shindo viburnum a shiny foliage fast-growing evergreen screening plant Shindo viburnums can reach 20-plus feet over time and probably 10 to 12 feet in width Shindo is best in zone 7 to 11 in the top of zone 7 occasionally I'll see some burn on them in the spring it just seems to be like free pruning on this thing it just gets right back to growing that same season the rate of growth on Shindo viburnum will actually be kind of slow at first this is a very fast growing plant that seems to want to take 24 months to establish itself in the ground before it really takes off so I wouldn't expect that you're going to purchase a plant and have it be 6 foot tall in a single season like some other things but once it gets going it'll catch up and pass almost anything else Shindo by Burnham's could probably grow in either sun or shade but any kind of deep shade it would end up being very thin you wouldn't get as much of the foliage color or the stem color on it so I would give it at least a half a day Sun and then all the way to full Sun there's really only one usage for Shindo viburnum and most landscapes and that's gonna be as a boarder plant between you and a neighbor I wouldn't put this thing near my foundation it actually ends up with quite heavy roots you know like almost tree like root system on it which isn't really a problem as long as it's not near your foundation and you know spaced probably six to eight feet as a boarder plant my Shindo viburnums were probably almost 15 feet tall before I ever saw them flower or fruit and I'm in zone 7 and I just think we get late freezes occasionally that prevent them from flowering or fruiting as well I think in zones you know 8 9 or 10 you're gonna see them flower quite a bit more frequently I'm not really growing the plant for that the year that it was covered in berries it was quite nice but it's got plenty of things going for it it's got these red stems this shiny dark green foliage on the established growth and the new growth is kind of a reddish orange color in the spring and summer and it's also quite nice in terms of planting Shindo viburnums I've linked videos below for plain neither in clay or sandy soils just follow those instructions and you'll be fine you'd probably have a hard time killing these but you could if you planted them poorly end up stunting them and them not responding or growing for a very long period of time in terms of watering Shindo viburnum I've never I have two in my yard that are 25 feet tall now probably I've never drugged a water hose to them after the initial time I put them in the ground and watered them in some people say they're not as drought tolerant as some other things I haven't observed that but maybe that's true so keep an eye on them if you're in an area that you know tends to go a month at the time in the summer without rain you may want to drag a water hose to them and you know drown the entire space around them if you need to while you're trying to get some growth on these I would definitely fertilize them in the spring also the new growth on these is a reddish hue to it in the spring and early summer and it's quite nice and it's great contrast with this darker green shiny foliage below it so fertilizing will help encourage more of that new growth so any slow-release fertilizer in mid spring would be fine do not fertilize this plant after maybe the fourth of July because any new growth you put on it in zone seven eight or nine it's probably going to get nuked on it the first night below freezing in the fall you can pretty much prove Shindo viburnum anytime you'd want to they do flower in the spring and berry and fruit through the summer and fall once you once you get those on your plant but you know I really don't I'm not growing it for that I'm growing them just a block up you know if you've to a neighbor's yard and so I'm not really not worried about it prepare to prune this thing with a saw the stems on it'll end up three inches around in time and it's really not something you're gonna be able to take a pair of shears to at some point mine got 225 feet tall and I cut them down to about six feet tall a few years ago and they're you know they're right back up there already but I had to do it with a chainsaw so just be prepared for that at some points you will have to do that Shindo viburnum get very few insect or disease problems occasionally we'll see some spotting on the leaves if the leaves stay wet for a prolonged period of time it's usually not that big of a deal and they are reasonably deer resistant so what are you waiting for even you can grow the low-maintenance fast growing Shindo viburnum thank you for watching my video and it was helpful please hit the like button and subscribe to my channel for future videos also comment below with any questions you have about Shindo viburnum thanks again