Poor old berberis is the most despised of garden plants – routinely exiled to the outer reaches of supermarket car-parks and the central reservation of motorways, spiny and unloved, valued only as a ...

Berberis vulgaris, commonly known as barberry, is a shrub that grows tart, red berries. While the plant is native to parts of Europe, Africa, and Asia, it can now be found all over the world. Its ...

Here's a change of pace: wintergreen barberry, Berberis julianae, which has the same thorny stems -- making it a good barrier plant -- but, instead of losing all its leaves for winter, it keeps them.