What: Berberis julianae, commonly known as wintergreen barberry, is one of the best formidable hedge plants you can find. The leathery, dark green foliage hides the sharp, thorny stems that knit ...

Poor old berberis is the most despised of garden plants – routinely exiled to the outer reaches of supermarket car-parks and the central reservation of motorways, spiny and unloved, valued only as a ...

Berberis were among the first plants to reach our shores from the Americas, while nearly all the famous plant hunters have brought back a berberis for our gardens. The Victorians were fans, and ...

What: Berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea “Rose Glow” is a fast-growing, compact shrub that bursts out in new growth each spring. The variegated Japanese barberry features deep burgundy leaves ...

We are awash with foliage color in fall -- along the streets of Seattle, beeches turn golden and maples light up crimson and orange. There's room in our gardens for fall color, too, from shrubs.

THE windy Thursday a week or so ago saw most of the remaining leaves on our deciduous trees and shrubs pulled from their branches and thrown about the lawn and paths. The garden has taken on a winter ...

Q: I found these purple growths on my purple Berberis, when I was tidying up the garden in January. Can you tell me what it is and if it poses a threat to my adjacent purple acer palmatum? CO’D, Co ...

As exotic species invasions continue to transform patterns of biological diversity, it becomes increasingly urgent to understand invasions' full consequences. Woody exotics that colonize closed-canopy ...