Red Leaf Japanese Barberrt
The branches are slender, spiny, and small, and the leaves are roundly oval in a deep red to purple color.
This plant is tolerant of many types of soil, but will not do well in wet to very moist soils.
The Barberry bush or RedLeaf Japanese bush, Berberis thunbergii, is a deciduous shrub reaching up to 24" tall and about 30" wide.
As name Barberry implies, this makes an excellent hedge or filler shrub.
The small, yellow flowers borne beneath leaves, from April to May, are not showy.
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When planning a vegetable garden, know what varieties will grow in your climate, know the frost dates, plant cool weather plants either early or late, know each vegetable's time to maturity, start successive plantings in a nursery to save garden space.
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