Published baseline for this location from 1991-2020.

Source: USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map 2023 (1991-2020 climatology) via ArcGIS FeatureServer

Projected zone for this same location in 2050 (2041-2070) using SSP3-7.0 (regional rivalry).

Full sun / Part shade

Moderate water

72"

Dense, rounded evergreen shrub with dark glossy leaves, forming flat heads of white flowers from pink buds across late autumn, winter, and early spring, followed by metallic blue-black berries. Holds its leaves to the ground, making it a strong screen or hedge. Note the load-bearing cautions: the berries are mildly toxic to people in quantity, and the shrub can suffer viburnum beetle and leaf spot.

Give it well-drained soil and it will tolerate shade and pollution that defeat most evergreens — ideal for a town boundary or screen.

Prune lightly after the main flush of flowering to shape a hedge; it takes clipping well but heavy late pruning sacrifices the next winter's bloom.

Watch for viburnum beetle and leaf spot, and site it where occasional defoliation will not spoil a focal view.

Plant in autumn or spring in any reasonable, well-drained soil, in full sun to part shade. Tolerates shade and urban pollution better than most evergreens, which makes it a dependable boundary and town-garden shrub.

Moves reliably as a container-grown plant; settle it in before the heat of summer so the roots establish through the first season.

Steady rather than fast; water through the first dry summers while roots establish, then it carries itself on moderate moisture. Watch young plants for viburnum beetle defoliation and leaf spot.

Reaches roughly 6 to 12 feet tall and 6 to 10 feet wide as a dense evergreen, flowering in the depths of winter and fruiting into spring.

Easily grown from semi-ripe cuttings in summer; named forms such as 'Eve Price' are kept true only from cuttings, not seed.