There was always a snowball bush and a viburnum.

Viburnum macrocephalum (Chinese snowball bush)

Viburnum opulus (European snowball bush)

Viburnum plicatum (Japanese snowball bush)

Most of the best flowering shrubs want lots of sun, but roses, lilacs, snowball bushes and honeysuckles all do reasonably well.

Snowball bushes flanked either side of the cement stoop, and red geraniums had been evenly spaced the length of the porch.

There is some confusion, as there are a few other plants, including other members of the Viburnum genus, also referred to as "snowball bush".

Surrounding it would be a ring of tulips, and then a border called "snowball," like the snowball bushes we had, the first plants to bloom in spring.

And he saw her vividly as he had seen her, standing in her yellow dress near the white snowball bush, with her arm raised to him in farewell.

Gateway to the bridge back to Minnesota, Nelson is another small town of old frame and brick houses, whose clipped lawns are edged in late summer with snowball bushes, shrub roses and hollyhocks.

Some of the more popular cultivars are selected for having all of their flowers large and sterile with few or no fertile flowers; their flowerheads resemble a snowball, giving them the popular name "Japanese snowball bush".

I’m planting lots of viburnums, more Viburnum opulus 'Sterile Compactum’ so we have lots of pom-pom or snowball bush for May flower-arranging courses, as well as the straight species, Viburnum opulus, with brilliant red foliage and berries in August and September.

Combines well with Viburnum Opulus and Cimicifuga in rheumatoid arthritis.