What: Dwarf Purpleleaf Japanese Barberry, or berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea Concorde, was selected for its small, compact size and dense growth. In spring, deep red-burgundy foliage emerges ...

Golden Nugget: The superior, tidy-dwarf (about 1 foot tall and 2 feet wide) golden-foliage barberry on the market from Monrovia Nursery. Yellow flowers are followed by bright yellow foliage with a ...

Versatile and attractive year-round, heavenly bamboo has carved out its place in Northwest gardens. Several dwarf varieties in particular fit just fine in the small urban garden.

Three dwarf Pieris or Lily of the Valley shrub varieties also stay quite small. They need regular watering during dry summer weather. Cavatine reaches just 2 feet tall in 10 years.

Alas, landscapers. One of those attractive and hardy shrubs in your yard — the kind you plant and forget — has a dark side. It’s called the Japanese barberry. Pennsylvania may soo… ...

Were are planting suggestions from the Chicago Botanic Garden, Glencoe, and the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service, Rolling Meadows. Remember that these trees and shrubs must be e… ...

The shrub can recover from this hard renovation pruning, but there will be no flowers or fruit on the new growth that sprouts that year. It is beneficial to mulch around the shrub after hard pruning.

It grows — uninhibited by weather, poor soil or natural predators. And for that resilience, Japanese barberry, a shrub, has become a mainstay of Pennsylvania landscaping. But for the same reason ...

As temperatures outside rise, many people are heading to nurseries to buy plants to beautify their yards. But there is a shrub available that, while beautiful in a landscape, has become a hazard.

Japanese barberry was introduced as an ornamental in 1864 and pitched as a replacement for fungus-prone common barberry. The spiny shrub grows as tall as three feet and is widely used in hedgerows.