Name: Admiration Barberry - 3 Gallon Pot
SKU: D2LSC 7302322145
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Admiration Barberry

Berberis thunbergii ‘Admiration’ PP16921

Plant Details

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 4a-8a Find Your Zone

Plant Type: Deciduous Flowering Shrub

Height at Maturity: 1-2′

Width at Maturity: 1.5-2′
Spacing: 1.5 to 2′ apart for solid border or hedge, 4’+ apart for space between plants

Growth Habit / Form: Bushy, Mounding

Growth Rate: Moderate

Flower Color: NA

Flower Size: NA

Flowering Period: NA

Flower Type: NA

Fragrant Flowers: No

Foliage Color: Bright Red, Deep Maroon, Neon Yellow edging

Fragrant Foliage: No

Berries: No

Berry Color: No

Sun Needs: Full Sun, Mostly Sun, Part Sun

Water Needs: Average, Low Once Established

Soil Type: Clay (Amended), Loam, Sand, Silt

Soil Moisture / Drainage: Well Drained

Soil pH: 6.0 – 7.5 (Acid to Moderately Alkaline)

Maintenance / Care: None, Low

Attracts: Visual Attention

Resistances: Cold Temperatures (-30F / Zones 4-8), Deer – more info, Disease, Drought, Dry Soil, Heat, Insect

Description

Admiration Barberry is a three-season color factory. Its amazing new leaves emerge radiant red edged in neon yellow while the mature leaves are deep maroon with the same neon yellow edges. In fall, foliage turns to brilliant deep orange. Exceptionally low maintenance and drought tolerant. Anybody can grow this plant as long as the soil is well-drained!

Landscape & Garden Uses

Growing about 1 to 2 feet tall and 2 feet wide, Admiration Barberry is ideal for use as a colorful accent or specimen, in groupings, in mass as a border or on slopes and embankments. Its high drought tolerance makes it an ideal choice for the Xeriscape (low water needs) and it’s a fine addition to rock gardens and red theme gardens.

Admiration Barberry combines well with sedums, junipers, ornamental grasses, yucca, and other drought tolerant plants that thrive in sun and well-drained soil.

Suggested Spacing: 1.5 to 2 feet apart for solid border or hedge; 4 feet or more apart for space between plants

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Note: For our customers who live and garden north of USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 4a, where this Barberry is not winter hardy, you’ll be happy to know it can be grown in containers that can be brought indoors during winter and placed back outside when temperatures warm up in spring.

Growing Preferences

Barberry are exceptionally easy to grow when planted right and in the right spot. They prefer a well-drained soil and all the sun you can give them. Coloration is more intense with more sun. As with so many other ornamental landscape shrubs, barberry does not like a constantly soggy or wet soil. When established, plants are very drought tolerant, requiring supplemental irrigation only during prolonged periods of summer drought. We’ve seen no insect or disease problems.

Helpful Articles

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Plants arrived in perfect shape. Shipping time was amazing!—————————————We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! Thanks for the great review! 🙂 Beth Steele | WBG

I ordered two of these. They were ready to leaf out upon arrival and are doing great.———————–We are so glad you are pleased! Beth | WBG

The plants we received today looked healthy and were nicely packaged so we are good to go. Now, time will tell after I plant the plants tomorrow.——————————–Hi Roland, Thanks so much for taking the time to provide your review of the Admiration Barberry. We are so glad you are pleased and we hope you enjoy them for years to come! 🙂
Beth Steele | Wilson Bros Gardens

This is my first purchase of a plant on the internet and I bought this plant for my mother because I “admire” her so much. She said the barberry plant didn’t have any damage from shipping. She said it hasn’t put out any leaves yet so will update later to 5 stars if it does. Would recommend Wilson Brothers to friends. ——————– WBG Reply: Hi Peter – Love your story…might have to do the same for a special woman in my life. Hope your mom enjoys the Admiration Barberry for years to come. Let us know if and when you want to bump your review up to a 5-star and we’ll get that done for you:-) Also let us know if there’s ever anything else we can do for you. We’re at your service! – Brent | Wilson Bros Gardens

Really impressed by the quality. Nice packaging also