Adding some of these fall-fruiting shrubs to your plot will not only look good but prove popular with wildlife too ...
In the spring, bees gather around the shrub's pale pink flowers, and in the fall, overwintering birds scarf up its scarlet red berries. Unfortunately, these flowers and berries -- and all other ...
Red chokeberry (Aronia arbutifolia) is a large shrub that produces edible red berries that are often used to make jam. It has green leaves during spring and summer, but its leaves transition to a ...
The staghorn sumac is a sensory delight, from its toothed leaf edges to its fuzzy fruit and young stems. Though it is related ...
Recent stormy weather has begun to denude trees of their beautiful autumnal colours. As the brightly coloured leaves fall and ...
Planting plenty of berrying plants is a good way to support birds. They relish berries, stripping many by the new year – ...
If pollinated, female plants produce bright red berries in the fall. Spotted laurel’s real selling point, though, is its showy foliage of mottled green and gold. A confessed DIY junkie ...
Red berries punctuate its green foliage. All parts of the yew plant are toxic. A soft-needled, slow-growing evergreen conifer, the yew is usually counted among low-maintenance shrubs for shaded ...
Plants flower white in late May to ... but the best show happens in fall when the leaves turn wine-red and branches sport blue-black berries that offer a late-season feast for birds.
Long gone are the days when everyone ‘put the garden to bed’ in November, and rightly so, for winter can be glorious ...
Prunus padus is commonly known as bird cherry. Prunus is the Latinised form of the Greek word meaning plum, and padus is the ...
It’s the white berries with black eyes on red stalks that creates the scary ... Leave the bean pods on this shrub and they turn a startling shade of blue just in time for Halloween, hanging ...