With their rich color and year-round visual interest, the Japanese barberry makes a stunning addition to any landscape by combining toughness, adaptability and versatility. Native to Japan and Southeast Asia, Japanese barberry has small, oval leaves that vary from green to a dark reddish purple with stems that have single spines along their length. Small, yellow flowers are produced during the spring followed by bright-red, long-lasting berries often into winter. Japanese barberry is a very dense plant due to the multitude of small twigs and branches and works very well as a hedge because of their uniform growth pattern but can also be grown in containers.
The Japanese barberry does best in full sun, although they will also grow in light shade and are drought tolerant. They perform well in almost any kind of soil, from very sandy to heavy clay, as long as it is well drained. Japanese barberries are very low maintenance with mostly annual pruning required to keep the desired shape as well as increasing its health and vigor. If used as a hedge, twice a year pruning works best.
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