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| pic is bad, so is the prick! reaaly stemmy pricky bush |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 15, 13 at 15:57
| get rid of it.. lol.. who cares what it is .... barberry??? ken |
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| Another picture please, further back. And then one in focus up close. Don't worry about Ken - he's holed up in the snow and getting slightly tetchy, especially as we softies start talking about our daffodils. Totally harmless. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Fri, Feb 15, 13 at 19:26
| my dad planted barberry.. on the driveway.. next to my basketball hoop ... i hate them with the passion of a million burning suns ... i have no clue why anyone would have a thorned spiked nondescript plant in their garden.. what??? for some purple leaves??? ... pshaw ... now roses have thorns.. but the payoff is worth it ... ken |
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- Posted by purpleinopp 8b AL (My Page) on Fri, Feb 15, 13 at 19:29
| Looks like some awful buckthorn that somebody tried to cut down but it grew back in the form of a million suckers. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 8:59
| ok flora.. of the UK ... i just finished reading every single thing written by Lindsey Davis ... and she is the only person in the world who uses a word i hate .. that being 'tetchy' .. every single falco book.. and others.. sometimes multiple times in a given book.. i think she does it just to bug me.. personally ... lol ... are you Lindsey Davis ... ???? i would have emailed you thru your members page.. but you dont allow such .... [hint] its a shot in the dark ...lol ken |
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| Looks like a barberry, good for birds, bad for people. There are certainly better bird attractors, such as Serviceberry and Viburnum. Even Yew... |
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| Sorry, Ken - I am not Lyndsey Davis. 'Tetchy' is a word my parents used. |
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- Posted by ken_adrian z5 (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 18:17
| so your mom is lindsey davis ..... rotflmbo .... its all tongue in cheek.. have a great day ... ken |
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- Posted by lola-lemon none (My Page) on Mon, Feb 18, 13 at 23:28
| If it's Barberry- it looks pretty much dead. I've never seen one bare- no leaves at all, unless is was dead. |
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| A very easy way to see if it is barberry - Berberis - cut a stem. The inside will be bright yellow. Berberis thunbergii is deciduous and comes in many forms - often with variegated leaves. They have small yellow flowers in spring followed by bright red berries that are long yet also small. Wear your best rose-pruning gloves and take out many of the stems that are more grey than red. The thorns are excruciating and Awful to get out of fingers. :-(( |
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- Posted by gardengal48 PNW zone 8 (My Page) on Tue, Feb 19, 13 at 16:12
| Berberis thunbergii is not the only decidious barberry species - there are actually quite a few, although the Japanese barberry and the evergreen forms are most widely known and grown. The photo sure looks like the winter appearance of a redleafed Japanese barberry. These thorny shrubs always seem to have a bit of a reddish/purple glow to them, even in winter. |
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| There are more than 400 species, many of them deciduous. |
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