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

🌳 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.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Although I have never seen any, these plants can produce yellow and white berries in addition to the more common ones in various shades of orange. Not as friendly to work with due to their sharp ...

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

"Evaluations ranged from 1 to 5 between different tasters for most varieties. It looks like we can't say that thornless or thorny blackberries are the best tasting, as there isn't much difference ...