The shrubs respond well to hard pruning and can handle such renovation during winter. Taking the time to prune barberry bushes is important as it maintains the shrub’s size, shape, and appearance.

It's barberry – a true health treasure, whose medicinal properties have been known for centuries. Although often treated as an ornamental shrub, it holds much more than just its beautiful ...

Cut close to buds, but not into them, and always above. Early pruning helps establish a shapely shrub with vigorous, balanced growth. Most evergreen shrubs do not need thinning or formative pruning.

14, 2021 12:01 a.m. State agriculture officials have had it with Japanese barberry. After considering it previously in 2018, Pennsylvania officials have added the invasive shrub to their list of ...