38 — Sunday, October 10, 1999 — North Shore News

ENGLISH holly is a tree with bright red berries. — perfect for adding colour to a winter garden.

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44 FIOME & GARDEN

AS summer annuals and perennials begin to fade and die, gardens lose

their colour and high- lights.

Unless there is something of interest to replace the flow- ers anid fall leaf colours, the garden may look drab until the fiese spring flowering shrubs appear. Plants that pro- duce colourful seed capsules, berries or fruit can help to maintain cotour and interest in the garden during the fall and winter season.

The presence of seeds, -- berries and fruit attracts a wide, variery of birds. However, most gardeners are prepared to share this food source with

their feathered friends because.

birds create activity in the gar- - den and reduce di." number of over-wintering insects.

By far the majority of berries and fruit are red in colour and this shows well in the winter sunshine. ] am not sure if birds can see red better ° than other colours but there must have been some natural selection taking place over the years, Other less common colours are yellow, pink, blue

‘or pumle, white and black.

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illuminate some colour. Planting ia the fall while the soil is sull warm helps the plants get off to an carly start in the spring and allows them to put on cnough growth for a good display next year. |

There are several trees that produce colourful berries or seeds and my favourite would be Cornus kousa. This Chinese dogwood not only produces excellent white flowers on a disease-free tree but also forms large red lychee-like fruit in the fall. There are several dif- ferent varieties of kousa.

A family of trees called

Sorbus have distinctive clusters ”

of berries that come in red, pink and white. They are more

commonly known as mountain.

ash or rowan trees. UBC has © introduced two new varieties called Sorbus hupebensis, “Pink pagoda” and Sorbus reducta, a one-metre high shrub. Both have pink berries and good fall +leaf colour.

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Crab apples with small fruit can be very colourful in the fall but most of cur North Shore climate rules out the Malus family as good fruit bearing trees. They are usually far too susceptible to disease for a good show.

Most varieties of cotoncast- er are short shrubs but there are several tree forms that are excellent for producing dark red berries that fast mast of the winter. Look for C. cormu- bia, C. lacteus or C. salicifolins Slocosus for red berries and C. Sranchetii for orange berries, 3

The English holly ( Zlex -.. aquifolium, 1 argenteo-mar- strata and I. ‘ferax) i is a tree bur Chinese holly (Cornista burfordii and burfordii nana) is shrub-like and has bright red berries.

A large shrub that puts on a nice show of red ‘current-like’ berries is Viburnum opulus or more commonly called : Guelder rose or Snowball tree. The leaves are similar to a small maple and turn a nice‘ bronze colour in the fall : before falling to expose t the: red berries,"

* Calicarpa bodinicriis a large shrub that putsona , °° magnificent show of sms!’ bright purple berries in clusters along the bare stems that last” well into the late fall. a

Firethorn or Pyracantha »

ants that seed and fruit

produces berries in varying colours fiom yellow through red. Look for P. “Soleil d’or” (yellow), “Orange glow” (orange) or “Cherri berri® and “Mphave™ (red). Skimmia Japonica is a similar-sized sorub and the female form will produce red berries that con- trast nicely wich the dark ever- green leaves.

A number of medium to small shrubs will provide colourfit berries during the winter season. There are sever- al forms of cotoneaster that produce red berries. C. fori- sontalis forms a fan-shaped spray of leaves and bernes that. looks great rowing against a fence or building. Most of the other cotoneaster varietics are” best used as ground covers.

Symphoricarpus alba or Snow berry is one of the few planes that has-white: berries and can look striking against'a dark green back ground. : Pernetiya mucronata ‘also pro: duces both white‘as well as‘: raspberry-coloured fruit and. grown together, make, anice combination. : a

‘Two great ground covers

”.. that are colourful in the wint are Galtheria procumber . (Wintergreen) and ‘Vacciniura:

vitus (Cranberry): Both have red berries and prefer dampish: soil. : Check the local nurseries.

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