If used as an accent plant in the landscape, it should be cut back to the base each winter to encourage more compact growth, flowers, and fruit. No seed treatment is necessary. It has dark-green leaves with silvery undersides. It produces an abundance of small, yellow, sweet flowers each spring and a heavy crop of berries that ripen throughout August and September. Berries are eaten by many kinds of birds.
Turkey readily eat the red berries in the early fall.
The hole must be large enough to accommodate the plant roots without crowding. This means the hole will have to be 4 to 6 inches larger in diameter and 4 to 6 inches deeper than the actual plant root measurements. Do not allow roots to dry out before planting. After planting, firm soil around seedlings. In contour rows or block plantings, space plants 6 to 8 feet apart.