When planning out a garden, we often think about color, contour, and attracting pollinators. But this popular shrub and hedge choice can bring unwanted guests.

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.

Don't let your vacation ruin your garden. These plants for Southern USDA Zones are meant to stand up to drought, heat, pests, ...

The dense thorny plant known as Japanese Barberry may look like your average shrub but it's troubl. Tue, 17 Jun 2025 22:33:11 GMT (1750199591959) Story Infinite Scroll ...

Ever heard of a Japanese barberry plant? It’s a small shrub, common in home and commercial landscaping. Acres of it grow wild in tri-state woods. Deer avoid it.

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 soon join a ...

I am tired of pruning my overgrown barberry and Spirea shrubs in my front landscape. What would you suggest for replacement shrubs that will stay under 4 feet without pruning and keep their leaves all ...

TRAVERSE CITY, MI – There are two widely popular landscaping shrubs wreaking havoc on forests across Michigan and the Midwest: Japanese barberry and winged burning bush. The bushes are known to ...

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 ...

If a shrub border is in your plans, here are some thoughts.Need shrubs that create a formal border, screen or boundary at the edge of […] Skip to content. All Sections. Subscribe Now.

Japanese Barberry, an invasive shrub that has become widely-used in landscaping due to its color and ability to keep deer away, will soon be prohibited in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania Department ...