When it comes to pruning barberry shrubs, the timing will vary on whether they are deciduous or evergreen varieties. As barberry are fast-growing shrubs, not trimming them can result in the shrubs ...

Japanese barberry is an invasive shrub that harms the environment and human health (not to mention our animal companions). They have escaped our gardens and now outcompete native plants in our forests ...

December’s Weed of the Month is Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii). This species is a specially regulated plant on Minnesota’s Noxious Weed list.

Japanese barberry, a woody shrub in the Berberidaceae family ... out of the ground as long as care is taken not to cut the stem from the root mass. hang bushes from nearby trees by their roots to ...

For more than two decades, Pia Van de Venne of Murrysville has been working to rid the municipality’s parks of invasive plants including barberry, garlic mustard and Japanese stilt-grass.

That lack of enemies has allowed the plant to grow unimpeded in the wild, choking out native plants while attracting insects that can transmit diseases. Japanese barberry is an invasive species ...