This shrub is on the east side of the Viburnum Walk.

Purchased from Pan-Global Plants, Frampton-on Severn, Gloucestershire in February 2008.

Arrowwood ‘Winton’ is a cultivar of garden origin (Viburnum erubescens x Viburnum henryi) which originated in Hillier’s nursery in 1950.

Viburnum erubescens, is native to SriLanka, India, Nepal, Bangladesh, China, Myanmar, and Vietnam. Viburnum henryi is a native of Central China; discovered by Henry in 1887; introduced by Ernest Wilson in 1901. 

Viburnum are a genus of about 150–175 species of flowering plants. Evergreen or deciduous shrubs or (in a few cases) small trees native throughout the temperate Northern Hemisphere and South America and a few species extend into tropical regions in southeast Asia. In Africa, the genus is confined to the Atlas Mountains.

Viburnum x hillieri ‘Winton’ is a medium-sized, semi-evergreen shrub with narrowly oval leaves, 5-12cm long, tinted bronze in spring and copper-red in autumn and winter. Small creamy-white fragrant flowers are borne in rather stiff panicles in early summer, and are followed by small oval fruits, red at first, becoming black.

Award of Garden Merit by the Royal Horticultural Society.