The best shrubs with winter berries add pops of joyful color to the garden when it's most needed. As the days get shorter a show of lustrous berries will add standout factor to your garden, as well as ...

This evergreen shrub that produces white flowers in May and June and bright red berries in the fall and winter. The female plant produces the berries when a separate male pollinizer plant is nearby.

Q: Recently you had an article about climate change and how that has modified our planting zone designation and that maybe someday we would be able to plant skimmia and have it survive. I planted a ...

In 1999, when I finished my Master Gardener training, I wanted to purchase two plants to celebrate the completion. I wanted these two plants to be something I had never grown before and ones that ...

Berry-producing shrubs also invite colorful songbirds into the garden and provide a vital source of high-energy food to ...

Skimmia japonica, commonly called skimmia is a shade loving, evergreen plant that has a rounded growth habit. It can grow to 4 feet in height It has attractive clusters of flowers in the spring, but ...

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Question: I'm growing some Japanese Skimmia in pots, and this year, I noticed that a lot of the leaves on these plants have this sort of bleached out look to them. What causes that? Answer: One of the ...