One outstanding shrub choice for spring color is the barberry. Not only do these offer us showy spring flowers, they also provide us with numerous foliage color options and growth habits. All thrive ...

Japanese barberry has become a mainstay of Pennsylvania landscaping because it is uninhibited by weather, poor soil or natural predators. But, for those same reasons, a panel of agriculture experts is ...

Japanese barberry, a woody shrub in the Berberidaceae family, is an understory invasive that can live in many different soil and light conditions. It has nitrogen containing roots (giving them a ...

The shrub is already banned in New York, Maine, and other states. It’s a haven for ticks and mice. A red crimson Japanese barberry bush (Berberis thunbergii) grows in the middle of a decorative garden ...

A: For E. B., especially: My guess is that you are thinking of Japanese barberry, a shrub that has been a long grown as a yard shrub and often kept well kept and nicely trimmed; even shared among ...

For the first 10 years that I gardened in Colorado, yellow, gold or chartreuse-foliaged plants made me cringe. Until I figured out how to deal with the soil’s very high pH of 8.4, my entire garden ...

Ages ago, when I first got started in education, I worked at the Wells National Estuarine Research Reserve. One of the many research projects I helped educate others about involved experiments on how ...

Barberries are drought-tolerant, small- to medium-sized shrubs that have really gained a foothold on the Prairies in the last decade. With their colourful foliage ranging from rich golden to ...

That pot plant sat innocently on your desk may be more intelligent than you might think. Scientists in Germany have discovered that one particular plant, the barberry, can choose whether to abort its ...