Two invasives to look for now are Japanese barberry and multiflora rose. Japanese barberry (berberis thunbergii) is a short shrub with bright red fruit and a sharp spine. Fall is an easy time to ...

Some are garden thugs, others are maintenance hogs or one-hit wonders. Don't bother planting these shrubs. The post 11 Spreading Shrubs You Don’t Want to Plant appeared first on Family Handyman.

A dense, vase-shaped to columnar, deciduous shrub about 1m tall or more, with soft coral-orange leaves to 3cm long, covering reddish-brown stems, the leaves darkening in summer and turning dark orange ...

“I think it has great potential,” says Matthew Pottage, the young curator at Wisley. Of the deciduous varieties, orange Berberis thunbergii ‘Erecta’ is shown here, mid-drop, while its red counterpart ...

'Superba' is a vigorous spiny medium-sized deciduous shrub with lax, arching branches. Leaves broadly oval, deep red-purple, brighter red in autumn. Flowers small, light yellow, berries bright red ...