Editor's note: Throughout the growing season, Mike Hogan, OSU Extension Educator for Agriculture & Natural Resources in Franklin County, will answer gardening questions submitted by Dispatch readers.
A: For E. B., especially: My guess is that you are thinking of Japanese barberry, a shrub that has been a long grown as a yard shrub and often kept well kept and nicely trimmed; even shared among ...
In fall of 2021 two popular landscape plants were added to the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture’s list of noxious weeds: Japanese barberry (Berberis thunbergii) and Callery pear (Pyrus ...
TRAVERSE CITY, MI – There are two widely popular landscaping shrubs wreaking havoc on forests across Michigan and the Midwest: Japanese barberry and winged burning bush. The bushes are known to ...