Backyard Bistro

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Backyard Bistro

• Good Plants for you and your birds

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Poison Ivy
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Virginia Creeper

• Leaves turn to crimson
• Deep blue berries cluster on red stems
• Likes full sun to shade
• Can grow ten feet or more a year (hard to
  transplant)
• Start new plants from root cuttings

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Muscadine Grapes

• Muscadine grapes tolerate high humidity Concord
  does not
• Very disease resistant
• Unusual bronze colored fruits
• Some vines require a pollinator
• Varieties to consider
• Doreen
• Magnolia
• Carlos
• Fredonia

Fredonia Grapes
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The Hollies
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American Holly

• Slow growing
• Red berried evergreen
• Can reach 30 feet in height

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The Hollies

• Red, yellow or black berries in fall or winter
• Sharp prickly holly leaves offer protection from
  cats
• Dense foliage hides nests and sheds rain
• Usually do well in full sun
• Hardy, easy-care trees and shrubs
• Most are evergreen
• Hollies are male and female, figure on a one to
  three ratio

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Longstalk Holly

• Evergreen
• Grows to 15 feet
• Smooth-edged leaves
• Bright red berries dangle from long stems

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Chinese Holly

• Good shrub holly
• Reaches 10 feet tall
• Tolerates any soil type
• Drought and heat resistant

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Winterberry Holly

• Native to Eastern N. America
• Hardy deciduous shrub
• 10 feet or taller
• Persistent bright red berries
• cover bare stems in late fall
• Best in full sun
• Need male and female
• AKA black alder

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Other Cultivars of interest

• Sparkleberry grows quickly to 12 feet high
• Apollo grows to 10 feet
• Harvest Red 9 feet
• Sundrops fruits well in light shade
• only 7 feet high/12 feet wide
• pale yellow fruit

Sparkleberry
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Another famous Holly
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Japanese Barberry

• Introduced in 1864
• Deciduous shrub
• Grows to 3-6 feet
• Bright red fruit
• Grows best in full sun

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Possumhaw

• Native to eastern U.S.
• Deciduous shrub
• Grows to 18ft. High, 15 ft wide
• Red fruit in fall/winter
• Grows best in full sun
• Tolerates wet conditions well
• Easy to transplant
• Berries are poisonous

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Japanese Beautyberry

• Introduced in 1845
• Fast growing
• 4-6 feet high
• Beautiful arching branches
• Flowers are pink-white in July
• Fruit is violet in fall
• Prune back to 10-20 inches

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Japanese Spicebush

• Deciduous shrub
• Grows up to 10 ft. in wild
• Bright yellow leaves in fall

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SpicebushLindera benzoin

• Deciduous shrub
• 6-12 ft high, 15 ft. wide
• Color not as vibrant as Japanese spicebush
• Flowers in April for 3 weeks
• Fruit ripens in August-October
• Birds LOVE it!
• Grows in deep shade
• Transplanting is difficult
• Beautiful black fruit

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SpicebushLindera augustifolia
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Linden ViburnumErie

• Native to China
• Creamy white flowers in mid May
• Red fruit after leaves fall
• Likes full sun
• Highly resistant to diseases

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Red Chokeberry

• Native to eastern N. America
• Slow growing to 6-10 ft
• 3-5 feet wide
• Spectacular red fruit
• Brilliant fall color plant
• Transplanting is easy
• Grows in poor soil

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Chokecherry

• Small bushy tree
• Regarded as a weed tree
• Controls soil erosion
• Scarlet to wine-red fruit
• Drought resistant

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Chokecherry
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Black Chokeberry

• This shrub will tolerate almost anything
• Swampy to dry sandy soil
• Does well in drought
• Does best in full sun but will tolerate partial
  shade

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Black Chokeberry

• Glossy clusters of black fruit
• Beautiful flowers and fall color

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Bayberry

• Native to eastern N. America
• Blue-gray berries remain through winter
• Shrub or can grow into small tree

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White fringe tree

• Small tree up to 25 tall
• Clouds of flowers in spring
• Long dangling petals
• Dark blue, small oval fruits
• Easy to grow
• Need male and female

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Downy Serviceberry

• 30 to 50 feet high
• Reddish-purple fruit
• Flowers appear before leaves

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Sassafras

• Native to south eastern U.S.
• Can reach up to 80 feet
• Small blue fruit
• Commonly found
• along fence rows.
• Unisexual

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Red Mulberry

• Native to south eastern U.S.
• Can grow to 60-70 but usually smaller
• Trunk can be 12 to 18 in diameter
• Fruit-dark red to purplish

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Staghorn Sumac

• Not poison sumac
• Usually shrubby but can reach up to 25 to 35 in
  height
• Fruit persistent throughout winter

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Staghorn sumac
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Flowering Dogwood

• Native dogwood
• 20 to 40 feet tall
• Glossy red fruit

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Osier dogwood(red twig)

• Native dogwood
• Only 7 to 9 in height
• Up to twelve feet spread
• Dark green summer foliage turns reddish in the
  fall

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Sugarberry

• Can grow to 60 feet
• Abundant fruit crop
• Fruit is deep purple

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Sugarberry
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Nanny berry

• Native
• Other names are, sheepberry, wild blueberry, wild
  raisin
• Glossy green foliage turns orange-red in fall
• 9 to 18 in height
• Maximum height of 30

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Nanny berry

• Prefers shade but not picky
• Can grow in full sun
• Will adapt to poor soils
• Fruits change from yellow to pink to finally deep
  blue
• Sweet and edible