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Very showy metallic like shiny purple bloom bound to catch your eyes! It is growing well in my zone 7b garden Love it!
As a northerner I just discovered this plant when I saw some wild specimens growing in southern Florida. It is a good-looking shrub. It h...Read More
I love hiking in Texas in the fall, for the chance to see these beauties. Here is a great link discussing the varieties and growth:
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We have these growing "wild" all over our property. The birds enjoy them including our chickens. In fact, I have fed these berries to chi...Read More
This plant appears on none of the reliable toxic plant databases.
I find the Japanese species C. dichotoma and C. japonica...Read More
It is native here in Western Arkansas but I haven't noticed it being invasive here. That being said, the plants I have grown were volunte...Read More
Not invasive here, I have not seen a seedling at all in 20 years of my father's bush growing next door, in the yards, or the woods around...Read More
You can add Madisonville, Louisiana to your list of locations for this plant. I just discovered it in the woods next to my house, and I ...Read More
Love this plant. I am new to beauty berry but the past few years have been making beauty berry jelly. It is wonderful. The berries are...Read More
I love beautyberry because the birds love it! With so much habitat destruction, providing food for birds and butterflies is my primary ob...Read More
I live on the Gulf coast of Florida, the violet version of the Beautyberry grows well in the wild here.
Some of you seem...Read More
There are but a handful of negatives out of all these posts, and I can see it some cases it's a problem. On my property in Valkaria, Fl,...Read More
I wasn't impressed with this 'nothing special' bush when I first moved to this house in the spring of 2009. Then around August I saw the ...Read More
Beautyberry is not fussy, requires virtually no care, and will provide shelter, nesting habitat, and important winter food for songbirds....Read More
I love this plant! We moved to SC from CA and had never seen it before. There was one in the yard when we moved in, living under an oak...Read More
THE AMERICAN BEAUTY BERRY IS ABSOLUTELY THE HARDEST PLANT ON MY RANCH TO CONTROL. IT TAKES AWAY FOOD FOR MY CATTLE BY SMOTHERING OUT THE...Read More
Easy to grow, easy to control. Provides food for lots of wildlife and birds. Grows in shade, sun, or any combo thereof. I move volunteers...Read More
We're in Western Orange County, NY State. Planted 2 of these a few years ago and forgot about them. Nothing happened for years, then thi...Read More
Originally I commented on this plant under "Callicarpa rubella", but the plants growing in my yard are actually American Beautyberries. ...Read More
I live in the very western part of Maryland, the mountain section with the Alleghenies a constant. The climate can be a challenge for ga...Read More
I am pleased and surprised to see a 6' Beautyberry bush/tree growing in my new backyard. This was planted by the previous owner, who lef...Read More
We have beautyberry all over our 10+ acres of pine / live oak forest, and it's wonderful. I appreciate all the "from seed" propagation a...Read More
I can't count the number of American Beautyberry "bushes" we have on our eight acres here in south Mississippi. I rate the bush "positive...Read More
Aromatic and attractive shrub. Seemingly fairly easy to transplant from wild. Can grow in shade or sun, moist or dry conditions. Have see...Read More
I have to laugh at people in Florida who give this plant a negative rating, then use "native" & "invasive" in the same sentence while tal...Read More
I have found that the berries and the leaves, when crushed in your hands, you can rub it on yourself as a fairly good mosquito deterent!!...Read More
Zone 8 near Austin, TX: Not only do my resident wild birds eat these berries in winter (some years more so than others) but a small thic...Read More
I purchased this shrub three years ago thru the mail. It was a stick when I planted it and growth was very slow. It didn't seem very attr...Read More
Here's an odd one for you all.
In October of 2006, I cut some sprigs of beautyberry (Callicarpa) (with the beautiful berri...Read More
This grows where it pleases on my land. It survives being mowed to the ground, often. It's attractive and tough, and the purple of the...Read More
For some reason mine doesn't grow fast. I have had it three or four years and it is still shorter and thinner than me.
American Beautyberry Callicarpa americana is Native to Texas and other States.
This is one of the toughest, most drought tolerant shrubs in my yard with pretty foliage and beautiful berries. I've never had any it sel...Read More
The internet provides differing opinions as to whether beautyberries are edible or not, and some people say that they taste bad. I've tri...Read More
This plant is a native and I am always pulling them up out of my ditch. However, it is not quite as invasive as some of the other undesi...Read More
This plant is a native here, it is all over my property and grows very big and invasive. I think of it more as a weed and have been figh...Read More
I had this growing in a full sun flower bed, surrounded by periwinkles and it made a beautiful carefree color bed. By the end of April t...Read More
Wonderful plant indigenous to North America.
The photographer of the plant said this about it, "American beautyberry (Cal...Read More
This has been in the garden for about 6 months. It has set many berries. It seems to like a moderately moist area in part sun.
I have grown this species now in Pennsylvania and New England (Zone 5) and it performs beautifully. It needs a bit of extra mulch in the...Read More
We bought 15 acres in the Capote Sandhills south of Seguin, Texas. It is heavily forested with sandy loam soil, and is LOADED with beaut...Read More
I am a new admirer of the American Beautyberry and so far I haven't found the place that it seems to thrive. I live in west central Ga, ...Read More
Great plant for shade. Native Texan as well. Long lived ~ one plant I have has been in the same spot for over 25 years, is now 5 feet t...Read More
Although I never tried growing them, as a canoe tour guide throughout the state of Florida I see them in a variety of habitats everywhere...Read More
If you don't use this plant in your landscaping for any other reason plant it for the birds - they enjoy the purple berries and will rewa...Read More
I live in north central Florida, and I like to use native plants, particularly "volunteers", in my landscaping. In that regards, Beautyb...Read More
This plant grows native and flourishes on my heavily wooded property in Magnolia (near Houston), Texas. In searching the Web to try and ...Read More
Beautyberry is one of the plants I have grown over the years that always gets favorable attention. I am creating a new garden now, but th...Read More
I just planted one about two months ago. It had flowers on it when I got it but now just the berries. It has not grown any but it doesn...Read More
I live on six acres in an oak hammock in Northcentral Florida, zone 8b, and beauty berry is growing everywhere on my property. It is nat...Read More
This is one of my favorite shrubs. It provides interest from spring through fall; first in the spring and summer with the flowers and th...Read More
Early Floridians, and possibly latter day ones also, made jelly from the berries. I have not done so, but have a recipe that i expect to ...Read More
American Beautyberry has done extremely well for me on a dry hill in Zone 8b Florida. It is native here, and can become a quite lar...Read More