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12 Evergreen Trees and Shrubs With Red Fruits and Berries

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When winter sets in, your gardens don’t necessarily have to be bare, dreary, and devoid of color and vitality. After the leaves have fallen, trees and shrubs with red berries and fruits make their grand entrance.

The bright red fruit ornaments are very nice in contrast to white snow and go exceptionally well with the Christmas spirit in December. Therefore, they are often cut from branches of trees or shrubs and used for decoration in the house.
Kill two birds with one stone by planting trees and shrubs with long-lasting red berries and evergreen leaves.

They often appear in the fall and remain pleasant all winter long, taking over from the evergreen foliage; decorative fruiting of these plants will add a veritable firework display in the greyness. A festival of colors that will continue throughout the seasons as these trees and bushes know how to metamorphose.

What’s better than trees that keep both the green theme and add some sparks of energetic crimson or vermilion when there’s little else to look at? And to combine the useful with the beautiful, many fruit-bearing trees and shrubs also serve as a source of food for the birds in autumn and winter.

Discover the most beautiful evergreen trees and bushes adorn themselves with magnificent red berries that will transform the desert garden in winter into an oasis rich in colorful accents.

Green Leaves And Red Berries And Fruits In Shrubs And Trees

Green and red are special colors; used in gardening and landscaping, you can achieve harmonic or dramatic effects with shrubs and trees, shall we see why and how?

Why We Use Evergreens with Red Berries at Christmas

When the festive season comes, we see evergreen leaves and red berries on doors and mantle pieces all over the world. But why?

It really has nothing to do with Christianity… It’s an old Pagan tradition from Europe, when people wanted auspices for fertility in the new year!

And what’s better than a plant that never drops its foliage and even gives you red fruits, maybe when all the world is asleep?

And now, let’s talk about art.

Green and Red are a Perfect Combination for Your Garden

Green and red are complementary colors. This means that they balance each other off perfectly well. Green is relaxing, red is exiting.

Green gives structure, red gives depth… Green is the color of Nature, red the color of passion. Green gives you a sense of time being slow, red makes it go faster! 

There are other sets of complementary colors, but they are not as eye pleasing as these two: yellow and purple clash, as do blue and orange;

these give you contrast, while green and red give you harmony. This is especially clear when it snows, and the background becomes neutrally white.

Balance Green and Red in Your Garden with Shrubs and Trees

Careful though, red can easily become “too much”. It is the most dominant color we have, the first we see among all colors. If there is more green than red, you get a balanced effect. 

So, the idea is always to have more of the color of Nature and less of that of passion, unless you want real drama in your garden or on your terrace, that is.

You can do this by mixing other evergreen shrubs and trees with some of the ones you are going to see now, especially those that have massive displays of red fruits and berries…

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Great Evergreen Trees And Shrubs With Red Fruits And Berries

Red berries and fruits with evergreen foliage is what all the shrubs and trees of this selection have in common, but let’s see also how they differ! And they are not just for Christmas…

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English Holly (Ilex aquifolium)

The queen of all evergreen shrubs with red berries is English (or common) holly! And you can train it into a tree too.

The red clusters of fiery pearls ripen just in time for the Christmas season, and you will find them at the tips of the branches mixed in with the iconic leaves of this plant.

The spiny, hard and very glossy green foliage is in itself very decorative. You may need a male plant to get the berries on the female one, but it’s all well worth the effort.

These plants have a pyramidal habit, and there are famous cultivars like ‘Red Beauty’ and ‘Blue Boy’. And be prepared for visiting birds! 

English holly is ideal for specimen and foundation planting, giving you structure and color all year round; alternatively, it will mix well with other plants in informal hedges and windscreens. You can adapt it to formal designs, but it will require much higher maintenance.

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Spotted Laurel (Aucuba japonica)

The name “spotted laurel” is misleading, as it is not related to Laurus, and in fact its leaves are softer, light to dark green with cream yellow spots; oval and often bending, they form a thick and dense shrub with a lovely color pattern and a glossy sheen.

Purple flowers will appear in spring, and they will give way to glossy bright and deep red berries with an oval shape on female individuals.

These will play hide and seek among the foliage, with a lovely and colorful display that can last into early spring!

Spotted laurel is very adaptable; you can grow as foundation planting, but also in hedges, borders and wind screens. And don’t worry if you only have a terrace; a nice container will do perfectly well!

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Heavenly Bamboo (Nandina domestica)

Heavenly bamboo is an original entry in our selection of evergreen shrubs with red fruits, or glossy bright green berries in our case.

They come in large clusters, like “grapes of fire” after the tiny but plentiful white flowers that come in spring are spent. As the berries turn from green into their ripe color, the foliage changes too!

The elegant pinnate and arching leaves are green in the early months of the year, but as fall approaches, they start turning red and purple.

This is a shrub you want for a continuous and ever changing chromatic spectacle on your balcony or in your garden.

Heavenly bamboo is a very tough plant, low maintenance and adaptable. Grow it in borders and hedges, for foundation planting or even under trees and in woodland areas. It will also be perfect in a Japanese or oriental garden. Be careful though, all the plant is toxic.

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Chilean Guava (Ugni molinae)

With Chilean guava you get three for the price of one: evergreen foliage, beautiful flowers and berries! The leaves are glossy, elliptical and dark green.

In spring clusters of super fragrant, bell shaped pink and white flowers appear hanging from the branches. They can keep blooming into summer as well.

They turn then into large dark red berries, ½ inch in size (1 cm) which you can eat, or turn into jams. The foliage too can get blushes of red, adding to the color display. 

Ideal for warm gardens, Chilean guava will grace hedges, borders and containers in Mediterranean, city and courtyard gardens and terraces alike, as long as informal in inspiration.

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Bearberry Cotoneaster (Cotoneaster dammeri)

Bearberry cotoneaster is an evergreen shrub that gives you a “natural” Italian flag, with green foliage, white flowers and red berries all at the same time!

The effect is lovely and light, with a very fine texture and pattern. The leaves are small, mid green and oval, the blooms are small too, with five round white petals, and purple anthers;

and the berries coriaceous and bright red. Imagine them all together on a dense shrub with trailing branches and you get the picture!

You can grow bearberry cotoneaster on slopes, as edging or even as ground cover, thanks to its trailing habit, which makes it ideal for rock gardens as well.

6: ‘Repens Aurea’ English Yew (Taxus baccata ‘Repens Aurea’)

‘Repens Aurea’ is a conifer shrub of the yew genus with some special features for your  garden. The dense and evergreen foliage is bright green with golden flushes, and it comes on the arching and pendulous branching of this spreading bush.

It will not bloom, but it will produce berry like cones that of a lovely coral red shade. You rarely get a big display, but they still look lovely when they come..

The overall effect is bright and full of light, and maybe this is why the Royal Horticultural Society has rewarded it with the Award of Garden Merit.

‘Repens Aurea’ is a cultivar you will enjoy as ground cover, as specimen plant in rock gardens, courtyard and city gardens, maybe next to steps, or arching over low walls. It is well suited to shady gardens.

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Korean Barberry (Berberis koreana)

Korean barberry is evergreen only in warmer climates, in colder ones it may drop some or all of the leaves, but still… How can you resist the clusters of bright red and egg shaped berries that hang from the branches in the late months?

And they follow equally beautiful drooping flowers of the brightest yellow! The leaves are bright green most of the year, but then they take on russet to maroon and purple tones in fall and winter.

While it may shed them in severe climates, it is very cold hardy, so don’t worry if it does; they will come back in spring. The branches till look lovely though, reddish in color and with spikes.

Korean berry has a wild, woodland look; use it for informal, cottage and traditional garden as part of your borders, hedges or wind screens, even as foundation planting and in shady, naturalized and woodland areas.

8: Strawberry Tree (Arbustus unedo)

Strawberry tree is different from the evergreen shrubs and trees we have seen so far; it has large round fruits that ripen over a whole year, going from green to yellow to bright red when they are finally mature.

This means that they will share the branches with the clusters of nodding, urn shaped, cream and very fragrant flowers that come in fall and winter.

The leaves are mid green and broad, elliptical and serrated, not too dense and pointing up, while the “strawberries” hang underneath.

Red, cream, green and yellow can all be on this bush at the same time, and you can even turn it into a small tree.

Strawberry tree is perfect for Mediterranean and coastal garden, but it won’t loom out of place in borders, hedges and as foundation or specimen planting in other informal designs. And don’t forget that the fruits are edible!

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‘Red Cushion’ Scarlet Firethorn (Pyracantha coccinea ‘Red Cushion’)

The name of ‘Red Cushion’ scarlet firethorn says it all about this evergreen shrub. Noted for its spiked branches and regular, tidy habit, it fills with a sea of scarlet red berries in clusters, each with a flattened round shape, looking like miniature apples.

But it is also a massive bloomer, with tiny white flowers that come in spring and continue into the early months of summer.

The foliage is mid green, glossy and finely textured thanks to the small and oval leaves, not too dense, but lush enough to set off blossoms and fruits well.

‘Red Cushion’ scarlet firethorn has a very temperate woodland personality; grow it in informal gardens, as a wall side shrub, in hedges or even as foundation planting.

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Evergreen Dogwood (Cornus capitata)

Evergreen dogwood is the big outsider in our selection of evergreen trees and shrubs with red berries and fruits…

It is far too exotic to fit the Christmas theme, but nevertheless a rare beauty! The green foliage is elliptical, mid green and arched, like that of peach trees, not too dense but lush.

The blooms are dour round, cream white and very showy bracts that look like petals on the branches from early to mid summer.

Them you will see large, bright red berries hanging on pendulous red stems, that look like oversized berries… Don’t just “look” at them… pick them too, as they are quite a treat for you and for birds if they get there first!

Evergreen dogwood is a tropical looking shrub or tree that can’t be missed in any garden, especially in tropical, Mediterranean or coastal gardens, where it really gives its best!

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Japanese Skimmia (Skimmia japonica)

Japanese skimmia is the ideal soft looking evergreen shrub with red berries for shady gardens. It has very dense, broad, oval mid green leaves with a nice aroma; they form mounds of lush foliage all year round, with a spreading habit.

By mid spring you will see large and thick clusters of cream and pink star shaped blooms, that form interesting and very fragrant plumes above the greenery.

Then, on female plants, the flowers give way to bright and glossy candy red berries in groups, and they will stay on till winter.

Plant male and male individuals nearby for best effect, especially on banks and slopes, in borders and hedges, woodland areas and traditional looking gardens, and you will not regret it!

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Peruvian Peppertree (Schinus molle)

Peruvian peppertree is a very elegant evergreen tree with edible berries. The branches have a weeping habit, and they are covered in light green, finely pinnate leaves that look like fronds and wave beautifully in the wind.

The texture is very sophisticated, and the round shape of the crown makes this small tree even more valuable for its architectural qualities. Clusters of yellow and green flowers will appear in July and August.

The green berries that follow will be ready for the picking by December, when they turn red. And yes, the name is not random! They taste of black pepper and they are in fact a great substitute for this spice!

Peruvian pepper is a very attractive plant for many types of gardens, as specimen or foundation planting; the foliage is so delicate looking and easily trimmed that it could even fit formal gardens, pool sides, and exotic gardens alike.

Evergreen Shrubs And Trees With Red Berries – An Eye-Catching Color Festival In The Winter Garden

Ok, most of our plants will look great during the festive season too, and they will have bright red berries and fruits just when gardens are barren and fire places need decorations, but…

With flowers and lovely leaves at other times of the year, cold or exotic personalities, round, spreading or pyramidal habits, for sure, they can grace your garden 12 months a year, and not just when it’s cold!

Adriano Bulla

After many years as an academic in London, Adriano Bulla became a writer, publishing books like A History of Gardening, Organic Gardening and Elements of Garden Design; he then decided to become a gardener, following his childhood dream, and has been following his dream writing and gardening professionally in Southern Europe, where he has specialized in new and innovative organic gardening fields and techniques, like permaculture, regenerative agriculture, food forests and hydroponics.

14 Evergreen Trees with Red Berries

Once winter sets in, your gardens don’t necessarily have to be dreary, bare, or void of any vitality or color. Once the leaves fall for the season, shrubs and evergreen trees with red berries and fruits show up to become the stars of your yard or garden.

The bright red fruit contrasts very nicely to the white snow, and they look lovely used as holiday decorations throughout December. It’s very common to cut them from branches of shrubs or trees and incorporate them into your decorations. You can plant shrubs and trees that produce long-lasting red berries and evergreen leaves. They appear in the fall and look nice all winter, eventually taking over the evergreen foliage. The festive colors continue throughout the season without dropping their leaves.

Also, the shrubs and evergreen trees with red berries also work double duty and serve as a food source for your birds in the autumn and winter months. If you’re curious as to what is available for evergreen trees with red berries or shrubs, read on. We’re going to outline several great choices below.

1. Bearberry Cotoneaster

(Cotoneaster Dammeri)

This is an evergreen shrub with red berries that gives you white flowers, green foliage, and red berries all at the same time to mimic the colors of the Italian flag. The effect is very light and pretty, and they offer a fine pattern and texture. The leaves are mid-green, small, and oval shaped, and the blooms are on the smaller side too with five rounded petals in white coloring with purple anthers. The berries are a bold and bright red. You get a very dense tree with a trailing growth habit, and it grows well as edging, on slopes, or as a ground cover due to how it grows. It’s also a great addition to your rock gardens.

To keep this evergreen tree with red berries happy, plant it in zones five to eight, and it requires full sun to partial shade for the light. The fruit will ripen in the fall and cling on throughout the winter months, and it gets up to a foot tall with a four to six foot spread at full maturity. The soil should be well-drained clay, loam, sand, or chalk with a pH that ranges from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. It’s very tolerant to drought once it establishes.

2. Chilean Guava

(Ugni Molinae)

When you buy this evergreen shrub with red berries, you get three things for the price of one in the form of red berries, pretty flowers, and evergreen foliage. The leaves are elliptical, gossy, and a darker green hue. In spring, you’ll get clusters of very fragrant, pink and white, bell-shaped flowers that hang on the branches.

They will keep blooming through the summer months. The flowers eventually turn into dark red berries that are ½ inch in diameter. You can turn them into jam or eat them raw. The foliage will also have red blushes in fall, and it’s a fantastic plant for warm gardens. It works well in borders, hedges, and containers in the Mediterranean region.

Chilean Guava thrives when you plant it in zones 9 and 10 in partial shade to full sun. The fruit will start to ripen in the fall and continue on into winter, and it will get between three and six feet tall and wide at full maturity. The soil should be medium fertile and drain well, and it likes to have a chalk, clay, loam, or sand-based soil with a pH ranging from mildly acidic to mildly alkaline, and it tolerates drought very well.

Chilean Guava by Sciadopitys / CC BY-SA 2.0

3. English Holly

(Ilex Aquifolium)

The queen of evergreen trees with red berries is holly, and you can train it to grow in shrub or tree form. The red clusters of berries will ripen just in time for the Christmas season to roll around, and you’ll find them growing at the tips of branches and mixed in with the iconic foliage this plant produces. The hard, spiny, and glossy leaves are a very decorative aspect by itself too. You may need a male and female plant to get the berries to show, but it’s well worth it.

These plants naturally grow in a pyramidal habit, and there are more well-known cultivars out there like Blue Boy or Red Beauty. It’s a great foundation or specimen plant, and this evergreen tree with red berries attracts droves of birds. It offers color and structure all year-round, and it mixes well with other plants to form informal hedges. You can adapt it to do well in more formal designs, but this requires a decent amount of ongoing maintenance.

Plant your holy in zones 6 to 10 to keep it happy, and make sure that you put it in a space that gets full sun to partial shade. The fruit will start to ripen in the late fall and early winter months, and it gets between 6 and 10 feet tall and up to 5 feet wide when it finishes growing. Wild plants can easily get up to 80 feet tall or more. Place your holly in a well-drained but medium-rich soil that that clay, loam, or chalk-based with a neutral to acidic pH level.

4. Evergreen Dogwood

(Cornus Capitata)

Evergreen dogwood is a big addition to our evergreen trees with red berries list. It’s too exotic to fit nicely into the holiday theme, but it’s a rarer plant that you can have grace your yard. The foliage is mid-green, elliptical, and arched, and it looks a little like the foliage you’d see on peach trees, but not as dense. The blooms are creamy white and round, and they offer very showy bracts that look like petals dotting the branches from spring to late summer.

This dogwood produces bright red, large berries that hang on red stems, and you can pick them and safely eat them right from the tree. The birds also adore these berries, and it’s a very tropical looking shrub or tree that you don’t want to miss out on. It thrives when you plant it in coastal, Mediterranean, or tropical garden settings.

For the best results, plant your evergreen tree with red berries in zones eight or nine in a spot that gets partial shade to full sun. The fruit will start to ripen in the fall months into the winter, and it can easily reach between 20 and 40-feet tall and wide. This tree prefers to be in fertile and organically rich soil that drains well and as a clay, loam, or sand base. The pH range should fall between neutral to mildly acidic.

5. Hawthorn

(Crataegus monogyna)

A very familiar plant in hedgerows, hawthorn trees make a pretty addition to gardens because it produces pretty red berries that stick around all fall and well into the winter months. It’s a pretty landscape tree that provides berries that will draw in rabbits, squirrels, birds, and deer. You can also safely eat the berries as long as you cook them before you do so. The berries also have a very strong medicinal value to them, especially when it comes to promoting heart health. They also work very well if you reduce them down to make a sauce, wine, fruit leather, or add them to an apple jelly.

The Winter King cultivar is one of the main trees that display red berries on the branches when the rest of the trees are bare. They bloom from mid to late springtime and make a nice addition to your yard. You can easily grow them in zones five to nine in almost any soil type as long as it drains well. They need full sun to reach the 15 to 30 foot mature height.

6. Heavenly Bamboo

(Nandina Domestica)

Heavenly bamboo is a very pretty ornamental evergreen tree with red berries that many people skip over when they’re looking for something to plant. They produce big clusters or berries after the tiny white flowers bloom in the spring and fade by midsummer. As the berries turn from green to a bold red hue, the foliage will start to change too. The arching and pinnate leaves are green during the early summer months, but as the seasons fade to fall, they start turning purple and red.

Heavenly bamboo is the plant you want if you want to get ever-changing and continuous chromatic colors in your garden or balcony. It’s a very tough cultivar that is low maintenance and it’ll adapt readily. You can easily grow it in hedges or borders, as a foundation plant, or even under trees in woodland gardens. It’s also very pretty situated in a Japanese garden, but all of the plants are toxic, so be wary as to who can get at it.

To keep this plant happy, plant it in zones six to nine in an area that gets partial shade to full sun. It will ripen in the fall and winter months to put on a show, and it gets between four and eight feet tall and four feet wide. It needs medium-fertile soil that drains well with a chalk, clay, loam, or sand base. Also, keep the pH mildly acidic to mildly alkaline, and it’s tolerant of drought.

7. Japanese Skimmia

(Skimmia Japonica)

Japanese Skimmia is a soft-looking, common evergreen shrub with red berries that does well in shade gardens. It has broad, dense, mid-green leaves in an oval shape that give off a nice scent. They form foliage mounds all year round, and they have a spreading growth habit. By mid spring, you should see thick and big clusters of pink and cream star-shaped flowers that will form fragrant and eye-catching plumes that rise above the greenery.

On the female plants, you’ll get flowers that give way to glossy and bright candy red berries that form thick groups. They stay on your plant until winter. You want to plant male cultivars nearby for the best look, especially in borders, slopes, banks, or hedges. They also do well in traditional and woodland gardens.

To keep this plant happy, plant it in zones six to eight in full shade or partial shade. The fruit ripens in the fall and stays on during the winter, and it gets between three and four feet tall and four to five feet wide. The soil should be moderately fertile and rich with hummus, and it needs to be kept consistently humid with well-drained chalk or loam-based soil. The pH levels should range from mildly acidic to mildly alkaline.

8. Korean Barberry

(Berberis Koreana)

This evergreen tree with red berries is only evergreen in warmer climates, and it may drop some leaves where it freezes during the winter. Still, it produces bright red clusters of egg-shaped berries that hang down from the branches. The berries follow sunny bright yellow flowers that drape down too in the spring, and the leaves are a bright green color most of the year. They take on a maroon to russet shade with purple tones in the fall and winter months.

Even though they can drop some or all of their leaves in colder climates, this is a very cold-hardy evergreen tree with red berries. It’ll perk back up in the spring, and the branches will keep looking lovely with a reddish color and reaching spikes. It has a woodland, wild look to it, and it works well in cottage, informal, and traditional gardens as part of your hedges, borders, wind screens, or as foundation plantings.

Your Korean barberry is best planted in zones three to seven in partial shade or full sun. The fruit will ripen in the fall and winter months, and it gets between four and six tall and wide at full maturity. They require a well-drained clay, loam, or chalk-based soil that has a pH ranging from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic. This shrub is tolerant to drought.

9. Mountain Ash – Rowanberry

(Sorbus aucuparia)

Offering bright red berries in the late summer and early winter months, this evergreen tree with red berries also produces white, frothy flowers in the spring months. The leaves turn a stunning shade of orange in the fall months, and this is a great addition to your autumn garden.

The mountain ash tree will produce masses of attractive fruits to lure birds in during the winter months, and these berries are very rich in vitamin C while having anti-inflammatory properties. You will need to freeze them before you use them for a few weeks, and they require a decent amount of sugar to counteract how bitter they taste. You can easily turn them into vinegar, jelly, wine, or a Turkish delight. In the right settings, this tree is very hardy, but they don’t tolerate extreme humidity or heat well. You can grow them in zones three to six, and they can top out at 30 feet high. They tolerate partial shade, and they need to be in a soil that drains well.

10. Peruvian Peppertree

(Schinus Molle)

This is a very elegant evergreen tree with red berries that are edible. The branches have a pretty weeping habit, and they get covered in finely pinnate, light green leaves that look like fronds and move nicely in the wind. They have a very sophisticated texture to them, and they grow in a rounded shape on the crown that makes it a very valuable small tree. It forms clusters of green and yellow flowers in July and August.

The green berries that follow are ready for you to harvest by late December when they turn a brilliant red. This is also where the name comes into play as they have a peppery taste that makes a  great substitute for black pepper. It’s an attractive plant to put in many types of gardens as a foundation or specimen plant, and the foliage is so delicate-looking and easy to trim down that it fits nicely at pool sides, in exotic gardens, or in formal settings.

To keep this evergreen tree with red berries happy and thriving, plant it in zones 8 to 12 in full sun or partial shade if you live in a very hot climate. The fruit will ripen in October to December, and they’ll stay throughout the winter if you don’t harvest them. It gets up to 26 feet tall and 20 feet wide at full maturity, but they’re usually smaller. Plant them in medium or poor oil with a sand, clay, or loam base and a pH range from mildly alkaline to mildly acidic.

11. Red Cushion Scarlet Firethorn

(Pyracantha Coccinea ‘Red Cushion’)

The name says it all about this evergreen shrub with red berries. It is known for the spiked branches and a tidy, regular growth habit that fills in with stunning scarlet red berries in big clusters. Each has a flattened round shape that makes them look like tiny apples. It’s a huge bloomer too, and it produces tiny white flowers during the summer months that fade to the berries.

The foliage is a mid-green color, finely textured, and glossy due to the small and oval shape. They’re not too dense, but they’re a very lush green to set off both the flowers and fruits. It comes with a very temperate woodland personality to it, and it likes to grow in informal gardens as a wall shrub, as a foundation plant, or in hedges.

Grow it in zones six to nine in an area that gets partial shade to full sun. You’ll see flowers in early spring to early summer, and the berries hang on until the middle of the winter. It gets between three and four feet tall and four to five feet wide at full maturity. Plant it in a well-drained, medium-fertile soil with a chalk, clay, loam, or sand base. The pH should be mildly alkaline to mildly acidic, and it’s both heavy clay and drought tolerant.

12. Repens Aurea English Yew

(Taxus Baccata ‘Repens Aurea’)

This is a conifer evergreen tree with red berries that is part of the yew genus, and it offers a few special features for your garden. It offers dense foliage that is bright green with a golden tinge, and it comes on pendulous and arching branches that spread out. It won’t bloom, but it does produce berry-like cones that are a pretty coral red hue. You will rarely get a large display, but they do look nice when they come in.

The overall effect you get is full of light and bright, and this is part of the reason why the Royal Horticultural Society gave it the Award of Garden Merit. It’s a cultivar that you will enjoy as a specimen plant in a rock garden, as a hedge tree, or arching over low walls in your yard. It works well in shady gardens.

Grow this plant in zones six to eight, and it can tolerate full shade, partial shade, or full sun. The fruit will ripen through the summer and into the fall months, and it gets between two and four feet tall and 6 to 15 feet wide at full maturity. It likes well-drained clay, loam, sand, or chalk-based soil that has a pH range of mildly acidic to alkaline.

13. Spotted Laurel

(Aucuba Japonica)

When you see spotted laurel, you have to note that the name is misleading as this plant isn’t related to the Laurus family. The leaves are much softer and dark to light green with creamy yellow splotches. They’re oval and tend to bend, and they form a very dense and thick growth habit in a glossy green sheen. It produces purple flowers in the springtime that eventually give way to bright, glossy red berries with an oval shape on the female plants.

These berries seem to disappear and reappear in the foliage, and it produces a very pretty colorful display that lasts well through the spring months. It’s a very adaptable plant that you can grow as a foundation plant, in borders, hedges, or as a windscreen. It also works surprisingly well in a container on your patio.

Spotted Laurel is an evergreen tree with red berries that grows best planted in zones 6 to 10 in partial shade or full sun. The fruit will ripen in the late fall through the winter months, often hanging around until early spring. It gets 6 to 10 feet tall and up to 9 feet wide at full maturity, and it likes an organically rich soil that drains well. The pH should range from mildly acidic to mildly alkaline, and it’s tolerant of heavy clay soils.

Spotted Laurel by Bernard Spragg, NZ / CC0 1.0

14. Strawberry Tree

(Arbutus Unedo)

The final evergreen tree with red berries on the list is the strawberry tree. This is different from the others on the list as they produce rounded, large fruits that ripen over the whole year. They go from yellow and green to bright red when they mature. So, they will share the branches with big clusters or urn-shaped, nodding cream-colored flowers that are very fragrant during the fall and winter months. The leaves are broad and mid-green, serrated and elliptical, and they point up while the strawberries hang underneath.

You can see green, cream, yellow, and red on this evergreen tree with red berries all at the same time, and you can train it to grow as a shrub or a tree. It’s perfect in coastal and Mediterranean gardens, but it also fits nicely in hedges, borders, and as a specimen or foundation plant in more informal gardens. The fruits are edible too.

Your strawberry tree will grow best planted in zones seven to nine in full sun or partial shade. The fruit will take all year to ripen, but it tends to turn red in the fall and winter months. It gets between 6 and 15 feet tall and wide at full maturity, and you want to plant it in well-drained but medium-fertile soil that is sand, clay, or loam-based with a neutral to acidic pH. As a bonus, this plant is very drought-tolerant.

These 14 evergreen trees with red berries are all great choices to add to your yard or garden. No matter if you’re looking for a large specimen, small one, or something with edible fruit, this list has everything you need. Ensure you follow the planting guidelines to get the tree in the best sunlight, soil, and planting zones to keep it happy. If you meet your tree needs, they should add pops of welcome color all year for years to come.

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An original shrub with red berries can decorate any garden plot. This is a real benefit and original natural beauty for the garden. A huge selection of cultivated plants with bitter and sour, large and small berries will fit into any design in an original way and become a bright accent spot. nine0003

The most famous shrub with red bitter berries is viburnum, which has exquisite external beauty and a lot of useful and medicinal properties. Another shrub with red sour berries is also widely distributed in household plots. This is a red currant. The third culture is not quite a shrub type, but it can be formed in a similar way. It's about rowan.

Prickly shrub with red berries - euonymus, dogwood, gooseberry, etc. You can find out all the names of such cultures and see them in the photo further on this page. Their combination will help to get the most out of the backyard and at the same time give the territory an unusual and aesthetically attractive appearance. But be careful - some shrubs with red berries are potentially dangerous to human life and health. In no case should you plant wolfberries in your garden. nine0003

Red-fruited cotoneaster garden shrub

Common cotoneaster This red-fruited garden shrub is not particularly popular, although it tolerates winters and heat well. Tall stems are pubescent, but over time, the coating disappears. The foliage is broad and rounded. The flowers are white with a pink tint, collected in inflorescences. Berries are bright red.

Cotoneaster is a horizontal or creeping evergreen shrub with a vigorous crown. The foliage is oval, green in color, and by autumn it becomes orange-red. The berries are bright pink and can hang all winter. This species is demanding on the quality of the soil. nine0003

Dummer's cotoneaster. This shrub with red berries grows wild mainly in mountainous areas. The stems also creep and because of this are prone to self-rooting. The height does not exceed 30 cm, but the width is very voluminous.

Foliage is small, round, turning purple in autumn. Inflorescences of a reddish tone. The fruits are pink, also remain on the branches for a long time and have a beautiful appearance.

Has a hybrid variety of Coral Beauty that is slightly taller than the original plant and has increased winter hardiness. nine0003

Cotoneaster multiflorum grows over 2 meters. The stems are slightly pubescent, but become bare with age. The young foliage of a shrub with red berries has a grayish color, turns green by summer, and turns red by autumn. The flowers are relatively large, form large inflorescences. The fruits are bright red.

Generally good frost tolerance, but not as hardy as Brilliant. Demanding on the nutritional value of the soil.

Cotoneaster Alaunsky - this shrub with red berries is listed in the Red Book. Widespread in mountains or river valleys. It grows up to 2 meters, has small pink flowers, and its fruits are red at first, and then change color to black. nine0003

Hawthorn - healing and aesthetic effect

Hawthorn - a large shrub with red berries or a small tree up to 5 m (sometimes 10-12 m) young branches are purple-brown, shiny, covered with sparse, thick, straight spines up to 4 cm long. Its healing and aesthetic effect makes the plant widespread in horticultural culture.

Leaves are alternate, obovate or broadly rhombic with a wedge-shaped base, pointed, shallowly three-seven-lobed serrate, shortly pubescent on both sides, 2-6 cm long, located on short petioles. The color is dark green in summer, orange-red in autumn. nine0003

Flowers with five petals, white or slightly pink, connected in dense corymbose inflorescences 4-5 cm in diameter. They have a slight specific smell.

Fruits of a shrub with red berries - berries of spherical or slightly oblong shape with a remaining calyx, diameter 8-10 mm., with 3-4 stones containing 1 seed. The pulp is mealy. The color, depending on the species, is blood-red, brownish, orange, pink, yellow or black. The taste is sweet and sour.

Common barberry - characteristics and interesting varieties

This type of barberry grows mainly in Central and Southern Europe, and these fluffy bushes can also be seen in the North Caucasus. The height of the plant, as a rule, does not exceed 1.5 m. The flowers of the shrub with red yagshods are yellow and white, begin to bloom in the last decade of May, in some areas in early June. The duration of flowering is average - 13-20 days. Ideal for backyard or vegetable garden. The shrub tolerates a haircut well. Not picky about the choice of location: it can grow both in partial shade and in illuminated areas. Among other things, the common barberry can easily endure even severe frosts. This variety of barberry is suitable for eating. This is a small characteristic of the culture, then we will consider interesting varieties. nine0003

Common barberry has not so many varieties. The most popular of them are the following:

  1. Barberry JulianaBarberry "Juliana" ("Jilianae") - the bush grows up to 3 meters. The leaves become bright red in autumn;
  2. Barberry "Aureomarginata" ("Aureomarginata") - a bush up to 1.5 m high. The leaves are rich green in color with a golden border. It is desirable that this variety grows in a lighted area. Otherwise, the decorative coloring disappears; nine0203
  3. Thunberg's barberry is no less decorative.

It grows wild on the slopes of China and Japan. The plant reaches a height of 1.5 m. In spring and summer, barberry leaves have a yellowish or bright red tint, and with the approach of autumn - brown. Thunberg barberry flowers are usually yellow with a red border around the edges. Compared with the common barberry, this variety does not bloom for long - only 8-12 days. The plant tolerates both cold and drought well, it is not demanding on the soil. The fruits have a bitter taste and therefore are not used in food. nine0003

A well-known shrub with red berries - wild rose

Rosehip (lat. Rósa) is a genus of wild plants of the Rosaceae family. It has many cultural forms bred under the name Rosa. This is a well-known thorny shrub with red berries, which grows in abundance in gardens and park areas, in forests and in summer cottages.

  • Deciduous shrub, usually 1-5 meters high. Sometimes there are low tree-like forms.
  • Shoots covered with thorns. nine0203
  • Leaves pinnate, with paired stipules (rarely simple and without stipules), containing 5-7 leaflets.
  • Flowers usually pale pink, 4-6 cm in diameter. There are forms with flowers that show signs of doubleness.

False fruit (hypanthium), oval or ovoid-spherical, red, orange, purplish-red when ripe, with numerous nuts inside. The color of hypanthium is due to the high content of carotenes. The fruits ripen in October. nine0003

Since ancient times, rose hips have been used in folk medicine for gum bleeding. A decoction was also prepared from the wild rose to restore strength. Healing tinctures were prepared from the leafy and root parts of the wild rose. Rosehip syrup with honey was drunk for inflammatory diseases and ulcers in the oral cavity.

Common raspberry and well-known

Common raspberry is a thorny shrub with red berries, characterized by branching. It has a perennial rhizome and is characterized by erect shoots that can reach two meters in height. This is a well-known culture for the garden and vegetable garden. nine0003

In the first year, the shoots are fluffy and only their lower part is covered with small and thin brown thorns. In the second year, they become strong and begin to bear fruit, after which they dry up, and new shoots grow from the rhizome and the two-year cycle of life begins anew.

The plant itself not only brings delicious fruits, but also has an attractive appearance, so the photo of common raspberry is popular. On the relatively long petioles of the semi-shrub, there are pinnate, compound and alternate leaves, with an average of five to seven leaflets, the upper of which are trifoliate and have stipules. The white flowers of the common raspberry are small and have five petals. nine0003

The red, ruby ​​fruits of the culture are a combined drupe, in crops bred by breeders, the berry may have a yellow color. The seeds are round and very small, but hard.

The crop blooms in June-July, and the fruits begin to ripen around July-August. Common raspberry bears fruit over the years is unstable. The yield is affected by the weather: cold and rainy weather prevents the necessary pollination by insects. Reproduction of common raspberries occurs vegetatively or by seeds. nine0003

Common cranberry - creeping shrub

Common cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos) is another creeping shrub with red bitter berries that you can grow in your garden.

  • Taxon: family Ericaceae
  • Other names: swamp cranberry, four-leafed cranberry, vaccinium, bearberry, marsh grape
  • In English: Craneberry, Bearberries

sharp, sour and coccus - spherical, which means "sour ball", "sour berry", to the taste of the fruit. The old specific name comes from the Latin palustris - marsh. nine0003

The first European settlers called the cranberry "Craneberry" (literally "crane berry"), because the open flowers on the stems reminded them of the neck and head of a crane. In 17th century New England, cranberries were sometimes called "Bearberries" because people often saw bears eating them.

Common cranberry is an evergreen shrub with red berries and creeping, thin shoots up to 80 cm long. The stems are flexible, lignified, dark brown, with ascending flower-bearing twigs and short filiform fluffy annual twigs. The leaves are alternate, leathery, shiny, dark green, glaucous below from a wax coating and in places with small glandular hairs. Leaves 5-16 mm long, 2-6 mm wide, on short petioles, oblong-ovate, sharp at the apex with entire wrapped edges. The flowers of cranberries are pink-red, drooping, arranged one by one or more often collected in 2-4, less often 6 in umbellate inflorescences on last year's branches. Pedicels long, calyx with four sepals, corolla deeply four-parted, 5-7 mm long, 1.5-2 mm wide. Blossoms in May-June, the fruits ripen in late August and September. The size of a berry grown in a swamp reaches 16 mm. nine0003

Common cranberries often grow together with another species - small-fruited cranberries (Vaccinium microcarpum). In Russia, small-fruited cranberries are considered as an independent species, however, in international botanical databases, they are often included in the synonymy of the species Vaccinium oxycoccos. All parts of this plant are smaller, the diameter of the berries is 4-6 mm.

Common dogwood - a luxurious garden shrub

It is very difficult to confuse the sweet and sour taste of dogwood jam: it is familiar to many from childhood. Common dogwood is widely popular with gardeners in our country due to its unpretentious care, easy cultivation and variety of varieties. More than 50 kg of berries can be harvested from one luxurious dogwood garden bush

In the late autumn, while picking mushrooms in the forest, people saw a bush full of bright red sweet-tasting berries. They took the shrub to their garden. And for a long time after that they made fun of the shaitan, and he decided to take revenge. The following year, the dogwood gave people a generous harvest, but in order for it to ripen, the sun spent all its strength. Therefore, the winter was severe and frosty. Since then, the second name of dogwood is shaitan-berry, and there is a sign among the people: a rich harvest of dogwood promises a harsh winter.

Common dogwood is a short spreading shrub with red fruits or a tree 2-5 m high. Dogwood usually grows as a shrub in the garden to make it easier to harvest. Shoots are easy to form, forming a regular round-pyramidal crown. nine0003

Flowering of the shrub comes early: in the middle lane dogwood blossoms from March 30 to April 20. A sudden cold snap or return spring frosts are not terrible for dogwood flowers. In frost, the flowers shrink and in this state they hold until the onset of heat. Flowering in dogwood lasts 12-15 days, at the end of which the shrub releases leaves.

Attention! When buying and planting dogwood seedlings, keep in mind that the culture is self-fertile, so two or more shrubs planted side by side are required to produce a crop.

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