Hydrangea shrubs provide large bunch up prime heads beloved for garden design compositions and cut bloom . They take either of two flower headland shapes : mophead or " snowball - like " and lacecap , which is a flattened cluster of tiny flowers surrounded by showy bracts that take care like exploding fireworks . Plant other " hydrangea - similar " shrubs in your landscape painting to trick people into think you are the only one in the locality with early efflorescence and " eager " hydrangrea shrub .

Chinese Snowball

flower much originally than any hydrangea Dubyuh , Taiwanese snowball ( Viburnum macrocephalum ) blooms in early to mid - spring and is certain to make you conceive it ’s a white snowball hydrangea bush . spring up 6 to 20 feet marvelous depend on how cold your wintertime is , it is best cultivate in U.S. Department of Agriculture hardiness zone 6 through 9 . The heyday are first Malus pumila green before becoming everlasting white .

Japanese Snowball

Blooming in mid - spring about the same clock time as rhododendron and kerria , the Japanese snowball ( Viburnum plicatum f. plicatum ) is well grown in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 7 , and through 8 and 9 on the American Pacific Coast . Growing 12 to 15 feet tall and wide with horizontally reaching branches , the flowers are first pale immature and then level white in handsome snowball - like clusters about the size of apples . Choose any of the smaller - grow cultivar if your garden is specify on space : Popcorn , Newport / Newzam and Leach ’s Compacta blush white , while Mary Milton , Pink Sensation and Rosace blossom are pink to rise .

Doublefile Viburnum

Practically a sibling to the Japanese snowball is the doublefile genus Viburnum ( Viburnum plicatum f. tomentosum ) , which bring forth clean lacecap peak and red - to - black berry by mid - summertime . Flowering about 10 day before than the Nipponese snowball , doublefile viburnum produces huge numbers of flat clusters of tiny productive flowers surrounded by larger four - petaled sterile blossoms that count like butterflies . This shrub originate 8 to 10 feet tall and 9 to 12 feet all-encompassing , displaying wide - spreading tiered branch . cultivar of doublefile viburnum include Cascade , Shasta , Lanarth and Summer Snowflake . Pink - blossom survival of merit are Pink Beauty and Molly Schroeder . Grow them in the same region as the Japanese snowball .

Linden Viburnum

University of Georgia horticulture prof Michael Dirr simply says " Wow ! Spectacular ! " when advert the linden viburnum ( Viburnum dilatatum ) . Dirr likely revel the Charles Edward Berry more than the hydrangea - like clustering of livid blossoms that come in late spring . Grow this bush in USDA hardiness zones 5 through 7 , where it matures 8 to 10 feet tall and wide . Catskill , Erie and Onedia are cultivars .

European Cranberry Bush

Europeans call it the Guelder originate , but North Americans dub it the European cranberry bush ( Viburnum opulus ) . Growing 10 to 15 feet magniloquent and broad when mature , this shrub bears white bloom that resemble lacecap hydrangea . Cranberry bush ’s flat flower clusters have tiny , blanched , fertile flush beleaguer by orotund white , five - petaled unimaginative blossoms . In mid to late fountain the shrub is festooned in these large flower heads , follow by pretty red-faced berries by later summer . Grow this shrub in USDA hardiness zones 4 through 7 . Cultivars Roseum and Xanthocarpum both produce flower clusters that look like white snowballs .

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