Winter & Spring flowering Viburnum

[UK72]

I trim straight after flowering but now in July there are lots of upright new growth. Do I trim again or leave alone?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

There are a lo of them, found this on the RHS site

Many viburnums require little or no pruning, although most can be pruned if they outgrow their space. A few are best pruned annually to keep them well shaped and flowering strongly.

• Little or no pruning – Viburnum carlesii, V. × carlcephalum, V. × juddii, V. plicatum
• Little or no pruning needed, but they can be hard pruned to regenerate them – V. opulus, V. × burkwoodii, V. davidii
• Prune annually after flowering – V. × bodnantense and V. farreri, removing up to a third of the old wood at the base; V. tinus and V. rhytidophyllum, to control height and shape.

Don't know if that helps, has it still got a label on it?

 

[oneeye]

I would leave it alone too.

 

[UK72]

There are a lo of them, found this on the RHS site

Many viburnums require little or no pruning, although most can be pruned if they outgrow their space. A few are best pruned annually to keep them well shaped and flowering strongly.

• Little or no pruning – Viburnum carlesii, V. × carlcephalum, V. × juddii, V. plicatum
• Little or no pruning needed, but they can be hard pruned to regenerate them – V. opulus, V.×burkwoodii, V. davidii
• Prune annually after flowering – V. × bodnantense and V. farreri, removing up to a third of the old wood at the base; V. tinus and V. rhytidophyllum, to control height and shape.

Don't know if that helps, has it still got a label on it?

Thanks Oliver. I reviewed the RHS website before posting. They had a light trim after flowering but now there is lots of new growth, do I leave this alone, are these the flowering stems for late winter/spring flowering?

 

[Oliver Buckle]

'there are a lo of them' - sorry, 'a lot of them' - and they art very different and varied - so the basic answer is I don't know, and you would need to know which it is to tell. I'd say 'Leave it and watch it to find out', as is usual with plants, patience informs.