While it will keep out unwanted intruders, including deer, you can enjoy a colorful array of leaves, ranging from chartreuse ...

2. Dogwood Native dogwoods are low-maintenance shrubs or trees that can be grown in different regions and climates across the United States.

🌳 Nature is the best. Let's explore our world together. As a bonus, most of these thorny plants trick themselves out with delicate blossoms in spring and colorful berries in fall.

The plant, also called a Chinese wolfberry, grows sprawlingly into a thorny thicket peppered year-round by small, red-orange berries that look like oblong grapes. “They fruit very young.

Oriental bittersweet vines and American winterberry shrubs have decorative orange and red berries respectively through much of winter, including here in Lancaster County. These plants have other ...

Related to apples, pyracantha produces a crop of red or orange berries every winter that are showy until late winter, when birds eat them. Birds love to build nests in its thorny branches.

Blackberry stems, known as canes, can grow upward to about 15 feet (4.6 meters), and trail across the ground up to 40 feet (12.2 meters). Drooping canes can root at the nodes when they touch the ...

To ensure you hear your share of birdsong—and to shore up the species’ dwindling numbers—cultivate fruit-yielding trees and shrubs this fall By Bart Ziegler Follow Sept. 13, 2017 2:03 pm ET ...

One of the most noticeable plants in San Antonio winter landscapes is pyracantha. The red and orange berries are showy from now until late winter when the birds will eat them.

Other plants, including cacti, have spines, another type of sharp, pointy weaponry that forms instead of leaves. Thorns arise from shoots in plants such as bougainvillea, hawthorn and citrus.

Worldwide there are more than 400 trees and shrubs in holly's Ilex genus. Most of them are native to other parts of the world, but American holly is native to the eastern half of this country.