What is wrong with my Snowball Bush?

[GneissPlace]

Goochland Virginia zone 7a
Full sun
Viburnum Opulus- Snowball Bush
I am trying to figure out what this disease or fungus is so I can figure out how to treat it. I took this photo last fall. The shrub is new to me as I just moved into this house. I pruned it while dormant to open up some air circulation but with the extent of this disease or whatever it is/ was I imagine it will come back. It was all over the whole thing. Any thoughts on what it is or how I should treat it?

 

[Tetters]

I can't see clearly enough, but one problem common with the viburnum family is scale insects. Does it all look anything like this ?

Maybe you could take a more close up picture?

 

[GneissPlace]

It didn't look like that. It was more just discoloration/ leaf malformation/spots here is another photo I found. The tree is dormant now so all I have are these pics from last year.

 

[Tetters]

I think at this stage it's best not to make any guesses. We need to wait until the leaves start to come back and assess it again.
Here in the SE corner of the UK we had an awful drought last summer, how about you? That situation can cause all kind of mildew and mould.
For now I think if there's any sign of any of it on the bare branches, it wouldn't hurt to give it a bit of a clean up - just with warm water.
Viburnums like to be in sunny places rather than shade, and need good drainage, but a very long dry situation results in loss of lots of plants.
You did well to give it a prune during the dormant period. Just one more thought. If your plant had Viburnum beetle, you may have noticed a foul smell coming from it ?

 

[GneissPlace]

Thank you~ it didn't have a foul odor. Just very unsightly and sad to look at. I have attached a photo of what it looks like now before and after pruning while dormant. Its winter here now. Almost spring. The weather was actually very humid and wet last summer. I was wondering if that might have been hard on it as well??

 

[GneissPlace]

The 2 pictures above are taken from different distances so it looks like i pruned it shorter but I didnt actually. I just cut out some of the long/dead twisted canes

 

[GneissPlace]

This is what it looked like last summer/fall.