Berry bush...what am I?
Submitted by Tatyana on Sun, 02/24/2008 - 16:05
Berry bush: I just loved the color of the berries on this bush. Luckily, my grandmother had a lot of little bushes growing around the main one and I was able to get some rooted plants from her. For reference, the opening on the side of the house is a garage door.
I hope somebody will recognize this bush and will be able to help me identify it. As you see in the first picture, it is full of berries. This picture was taken in VA a week ago. Provided their temperatures are warmer there than in New England, the leaves stay year round. I'd love to learn more about this plant and see if I can still plant it here in RI.
Thank you,
Tatyana
Tatyana
NANDINA~ Yep that's it!!
Nandina is a very popular foundation shrub in my area of LA. I've had them for years, and the birds really do love the berries. One reason they make good foundation shrubs is that they multiply, by sending up new shoots from underground suckers. These can be left in place, or, they can be easily removed for transplanting without hurting either the mother or the baby plant. They are very fast growers. I like them.
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That looks an awful lot
That looks an awful lot like something I have outside my front door. We also have holly and I don't mind the holly, but these bushes tend to look kind of leggy or stringy sometimes. Our lawn care people trim them all the time (butcher them is more accurate,) because they grow so fast....What I hate most is that their roots spread everywhere and are really strong.....They invade the soil so deeply and so expansively that I have to rip them out to be able to plant anything anywhere around them.......I'd rip them out in a heart beat if I could................Then again, I think I've discovered that when something decides to be invasive here in Texas, it does so with the utmost gusto. There is a saying that things are bigger in Texas. When plants become invasive, they are certainly bigger in Texas.
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Yep, it's definalty Nandina,
--Sharry
I think I know that variety
I think I know that variety you are talking about. My grandmother had them around her yard, and the leaves to stay on all winter, so pretty bright red! Now that I am thinking about it, the leaves were very similar to this bush, and they did stay compact without spreading.......
Thanks for this idea, I'll have to look closer at those plants when we go to visit her again, Tatyana
Tatyana
it IS a very fast spreading shrub
Maw, so you recognized the shrub too, I'm glad ~ now I have a positive ID. And it is seem to be extrememly easy to care for....no care! When I went ot dig up one taller baby from this shrub, I ended up with about 25 of them all together, because all little ones were right there, and they made an appearance of the one fatter taller baby.
Thanks again, Annette
Tatyana
Tatyana
yes Tatyany NANDINA
Just googled
Tatyana, i have this thing of searching the internet when I get curious enough! LOL. I searched for landscape bushes with berries!!
I'm in zone 8, South Carolina. The bush is not invasive in my opinion. I've had mine for 8 or so years and it just got fuller and bigger around the base but didn't spread outside of it's planted area. Very easy to keep cause I've ignored it totally and never gave it any special care. It stays green year round and the flowers are so small that if you don't pay attention, you won't notice them. I think it will do fine in your zone. It seems to like the cold as well as hot humid temps. Good luck with yours.
I don't know
Gloria, I think you are right!
Gloria, I think it is Nandina, how did you find it? The leaves seem to be a perfect match, and berries look identical. I have never seen this bush bloom, my grandmother says it never bloomed, but it must have, to produce the berries. What zone are you in? Is it evergreen in your area?
I like its common name ~ Heavenly Bamboo...and they say it's invasive...(like bamboo?)
I am going to try to plant it here in zone 7 at my in-laws house. Your website said, zone 6-8, so I should be fine...it's so cold here in winter though, I am worried about it dropping leaves, will it survive then? What do you think>
Tatyana
Tatyana
Link
Check out these sites. It has pictures that look very much like our bushes. Could it be Nandina? Florida Data Virginia Gardens
Also says the berries are poisonous!
I'd like to know also!