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6 lut 2024 · Shrubs with purple berries like beautyberry, chokeberry, and viburnum are ideal for adding color and texture to a garden landscape. Also, trees with purple berries, like the American elderberry and serviceberry trees, add shade, beautiful flowers, and privacy to your front or backyard.
22 lip 2021 · berries on its bare branches are an important food source of birds during the winter. There are some cultivars with yellow and orange berries. Black Chokeberry Aronia melanocarpa This shrub is named for its black stems and dark, bitter fruits. These astringent fruits that wither on the branch are another important winter food source for birds.
21 wrz 2017 · The most common berry-producing landscape shrubs include blackberries and raspberries, currants, elderberries and Viburnum species. Identifying the shrub species is important to understanding how to properly care for the shrubs, as well as to know whether the berries are edible, inedible or even poisonous.
29 gru 2023 · Whether you choose a shade tree with yellow berries or a compact berry shrub with yellow fruits, these plants are ideal for landscaping a front or backyard. A diverse range of landscaping trees and shrubs produce colorful yellow berries in the fall.
18 paź 2023 · Purple beautyberry is a compact, rounded shrub prized for its vibrant purple berries on long arching branches. The purple berries appear in late summer, growing in clusters along weeping branches and contrasting with the golden-yellow elliptic leaves.
All of Connecticut's native Viburnums are good landscape shrubs: mapleleaf viburnum (Viburnum acerifolium), hobblebush (V. alnifolium), nannyberry (V. lentago), possum haw (V. nudum), black haw (V. prunifolium), arrowwood (V. dentatum), and downy arrowwood (V. rafinesquianum).
Connecticut has a diverse range of soil types, from sandy loam to clay. Fortunately, there are native shrubs that can thrive in various soil conditions. For sandy soils, shrubs like Beach Plum (Prunus maritima) and Bayberry (Myrica pensylvanica) are excellent choices.
