If you own your home and are thinking about planting an ornamental berry plant, there are some beautiful things to consider. The berries that these bushes produce come in a variety of colors and shapes. Sometimes the berries form while the leaves are still on the bush, and sometimes while the leaves are falling, they will warm into their fruit. Some of the berries from these bushes are delicious enough to eat, while others will yield fruit for wildlife and birds to eat.
If you like to grow blue silk in landscape, you will need two plants or another honey planted next to it. help with germination. Although it sets one to two years before any fruit, then the fruit will be blue and about 1.5 inches long. The blue silk is related to the chisel. If you have a shady spot, this plant will grow successfully. The soil does not need to be amended as blue silk grows well in poor soil. Another plus with growing blue silk is that pests and disease rarely bother this shrub. The life span of this shrub is 50 to 75 years and it is hardy in zones 3 through 8.
In the Christmas Cherry
The Christmas cherry or Jerusalem cherry has small white flowers. These flowers are not showy, but the red berries, which appear in winter, make this shrub very attractive. The birthday cherry is a relative of the potato and eggplant family. Christmas cherries are best grown indoors in northern climates, as they prefer to grow where temperatures remain 50 to 60 degrees F. throughout the winter. When summer comes and there is no danger of frost, place the Christmas cherry outside in a shady part of your garden. Growing Christmas cherries like plants works in almost every house except houses that have lights or coals. gas If the Christmas cherry is more susceptible to these two stomachs, curled leaves and berries fall
Blueberry
If you love blueberries and are looking for a wonderful plant that produces these berries, then the dwarf blueberry is a wonderful ornamental plant. Dwarf blueberry is the best plant to grow in containers, as they only grow to a height of 3 to 4 feet. Even though it is a small dwarf, it will give you 5 to 10 pounds of black blueberries. Each blueberry is about the size of a dime. Even the leaves are beautiful. They start out silver-green in and change to a purple color when they fall. Some blueberry bushes such as the Dwarf Tophat Blueberry can self-pollinate, but other blueberry bushes do better and produce more fruit if they have another blueberry bush cultivar next to them. Place blueberry-bushes in full sun. This shrub is hardy in zones 5 through 9, but if you live in zones below 5, you can bring blueberry indoors over the winter. .
