Description

Berberis are a wide range of deciduous, semi-evergreen and evergreen, densely spiny shrubs grown for their attractive cup-shaped, mainly yellow flowers in spring, and purple or red edible fruits in late summer and autumn. Evergreens have variable but attractive shiny prickly foliage and the deciduous plants usually have very attractive autumn colouring. They require sun or semi-shade and thrive in all but water-logged soil. Many make excellent informal or formal Golden Ring is a deciduous shrub with unusual, attractive large deep purple leaves edged with gold which hold a good colour until autumn when they turn a beautiful red. Yellow flowers in spring followed by red berries in autumn.