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Shrubs with berries can be a wonderful addition to your garden.
Here are 14 garden shrubs with red berries worth growing and enjoying in your garden.
Red Sprite is a good semi-dwarf variety that grows up to 5 feet tall, with good berry production.
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This holly is deciduous and not evergreen, often the berries will remain after the leaves fall off.
The tart berries are also a tasty snack for songbirds.
The berries also come in a white variety that is somewhat sweeter than the red ones.
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Red currents are rich in vitamins B and C, and like most berries, full of beneficial fiber.
The flowers in spring attract butterflies.
The fleshy berries attract birds from late fall through winter.
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The shrub, akin to a small tree, is upright and tends to put out suckers.
Birds eat the berries in winter.
In autumn the leaves turn shades of red and copper.
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It grows somewhat aggressively, forming dense thickets quickly if not controlled.
They come in various sizes and forms also, from low-growingground coversto tall hedges.
Most of them bear white flowers in spring and feature colorful autumn foliage as the red berries appear.
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The strawberry tree develops an attractive twisted and gnarled in appearance as it matures.
It displays fragrant bell-shaped white flowers in the fall.
This is a very pest and disease resistant shrub as well.
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Bunchberry (Cornus canadensis) is also known as creeping dogwood.
This low-growing evergreen has showy red berries that birds like to eat.
Creamy white flowers appear in spring.
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The fruits ripen in August and will stay on the plant until late fall unless birds find them first.
The white flowers provide nectar for the Atala butterfly, a rare butterfly species found in Florida.
The dark red fruits do not contain caffeine, but they can be roasted like other coffee berries.
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It is native to China, Japan, and Korea.
The bright green leaves have lighter green or gold variegated markings.
There are a number of cultivars available with variations in size and coloring.
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The ‘Rozannie’ cultivar is self-fertile and doesn’t need a male for berry production.
It has dense leaf growth and makes a nice bushy holly shrub that doesn’t need pruning.
This holly has lovely deep green leaves and bright red berries.
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Likeother holly trees, this one produces red berries on the female plants.
The ‘Croonenburg’ variety is self-pollinating.
The leaves on the American holly are less glossy than those of European holly (Ilex aquifolium).
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It is native to the woodlands of the Himalayas, in China, India, and Pakistan.
Other varieties include Canadian buffaloberry (Shepherdia canadensis) and roundleaf buffaloberry (Shepherdia rotundifolia).
This shrub produces bright red tart berries that can be used to make jam or desserts.
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Bears find them tasty and seek them out to consume before their winter hibernation period.
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Aucuba japonica.
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