Wander along a water's edge deep in winter, and you'll notice thick stands of a plant heavily cloaked in red berries. For your own yard, ask for a cultivar such as 'Winter Red,' which has fade-free red berries that will brighten your winter landscape for months. Some other cultivars offer orangish berries. You'll need a male and female for berry set. The berries look especially cheery with a coating of frost or snow.
Berries begin to ripen in late summer.
There's little appreciable fall foliage. Multistemmed shrub or tree, six to 10 feet tall and wide. You'll love this tree all year for its colorful exfoliating bark. All but young wood begins flaking to cream, light green, reddish-brown, or sometimes just gray and white. The attractive pink-tinged green cones take several years to ripen.