Berberis Wilsonii

Light yellow flowers are followed by edible fruits acid and lemony good lemon substitute.

Berberis wilsonii. A good bee plant supplying nectar and pollen to honey and bumble bees in summer. Eric also has a photograph of the flowers on flickr. It is in leaf all year in flower from june to july. Plant it where you dont have to prune it.

A pretty albeit prickly gem of a shrub with arching branches 3 4 high to 6 wide clothed in spiny steely blue foliage that is seasonally fall and spring suffused with plum yum deer wont eat it. They range in size from half a metre to one and a half metres high and spread. Barberry is a dense thorny plant and creates an almost impenetrable barrier. The species is hermaphrodite has both male and female organs and is pollinated by insects.

If you re researching the plant online it is important that you also search for a misspelling of the scientific name berberis wilsonii a common error which had creeped into the wikipedia article on berberis though i ve now corrected it. Tall evergreen varieties such as the. Family berberidaceae genus berberis can be deciduous or evergreen shrubs with spiny shoots bearing simple often spine toothed leaves and small yellow or orange flowers in axillary clusters or racemes followed by small berries details b. Berberis wilsonii berberis x julianae spring glory bergenia bressingham white berginia cilata betula jacquemontii betula pendula fastigiata betula pendula purpurea bidens ferulifolia brachychiton populneus brachychiton rupestris brachyglottis repanda purpurea c.

Growing up to 12 feet tall the yellow and orange blossoms are on display from the middle of spring until the middle of summer. Berberis wilsoniae is an evergreen shrub growing to 1 m 3ft 3in by 2 m 6ft. Create a natural hedge or privacy fence by planting barberry plants in a row. The little yellow flowers are very pretty and they are followed by dark blue edible fruit that is kind of lemony tasting which makes it a great lemon juice substitute.

Sun to part shade any soil even clay dry to moist undemanding z6. Barberryaid i guess i would call it. These seeds are from berberis trigona also known as orange king. Wilsonae is a dense compact mound forming semi evergreen very spiny shrub with arching branches.

Giraldii camellia amplexicoulis camellia minutiflora camellia j. This shrub likes to live in full sun to partial shade and is fairly deer resistant. It is hardy to zone uk 6. A dense spiny shrub to 1 m 3 ft high from w china.

This is berberis wilsonii. Calla black callicarpa bodinieri var.