Evergreen Shrubs With Blue Colored Berries
Emerald n gold grows only to around 2 feet tall with a 2 to 4 foot spread.
Evergreen shrubs with blue colored berries. This low care shrub is a lovely under utilized plant with brilliant flowers that appear in late winter to early spring and become blue to black berries by late summer to fall. Plants have a strong pyramidal shape growing 10 to 15 feet tall by 4 to 5 feet wide. In a terrific display of violet or amethyst their attractive berries adorn their branches and become the highlight of the winter landscape. Its foliage is emerald at the center and gold at the margin.
Combine sunkist with other evergreens to create a living tapestry of year round color. Both the majestic beauty hawthorn and the japanese blueberry trees produce dark blue. The emerald n gold cultivar explains the look of its bicolored leaves with its name. Some varieties produce attractive flowers in the spring and colorful berries in the fall broadening their year round appeal.
During winter the leaves get a tinge of pink. Laurocerasus can expect to see some branch dieback during the winter or wind burn in exposed areas. Grabbing our attention with the unusual color of their berries some trees and shrubs create a spectacular show of intense purple fruits in late summer or fall when few other flowering shrubs offer color. The lovely white flowers give way to gorgeous black berries and the persistently dark evergreen foliage of.
Mahonia mahonia japonica fast growing. Gardeners in the northern limits of the growing area for p. Hardy in zones 4 8. A versatile shrub the euonymus is extremely low maintenance and can tolerate coastal conditions poor soils and shade.
Euonymus is a genus that includes evergreen shrubs exhibiting some sort of variegation in their leaves. This evergreen shrub is slow growing and forms massive tufts of foliage up to 30 inches and it gets large white flowers which are edible. Or use it as a specimen shrub in a mixed border. Laurocerasus otto luyken is an evergreen shrub that i have plenty of hands on experience with.
The foliage of these quick growing evergreen trees appears in a variety of colors from green to variegated gold or white providing beautiful color to your garden in the winter. Why we love it. Evergreen shrubs bring life to dreary winter landscapes with their lush greenery. Yucca filamentosa this plant has greenish blue leaves which have white margins.
Like coniferous evergreens evergreen shrubs create an everlasting framework for seasonal garden plantings. If you have an evergreen in your yard producing blue berries one of two trees is the likely candidate. Identify the shrubs by looking at the berry color. Photo by matt suwak.