"limey" wrote in message
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For sentimental reasons, I would like to replace a Japanese snowball plant
that we transplanted here after my mother-in-law died. It died during an
incredibly wet spring and summer a couple of years ago.

Nurseries are drawing a blank. I suppose it's an old-fashioned plant, but
is there another common name for the plant/bush? It blooms all summer,
with white "snowballs" similar to a hydrangea. It is not viburnum.

I would appreciate any help on this. Many thanks.

Japanese snowball is the common name typically applied to Viburnum plicatum.
http://oregonstate.edu/dept/ldplants/vipl4.htm
Common snowball bush is Viburnum opulus 'Roseum' and there is also a Chinese
snowball that is another species of viburnum. I have never heard of anything
other than viburnums or sometimes, infrequently, hydrangeas referred to as
"snowball bushes" and neither will offer blooms continually all summer.
Nothing else comes to mind that offers the same rounded, dense white flowers
or that blooms all summer.

pam - gardengal