| Berberine, a constituent of herbs such as goldenseal, barberry, and Oregon grape, has broad-spectrum antibiotic activity. |
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| Plants such as privet or barberry need severe pruning immediately after planting and at the beginning of the second year to make them bushy. |
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| And then there are the usual green plants with red berries such as hollies and barberry, and old garden roses with showy hips. |
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| In Western herbal medicine barberry root and gentian are used as bitter tonics to aid digestion. |
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| Swirling robins and starlings competed for the red berries of the barberry and the blue berries of the privet. |
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| Evans sees tree of heaven and Japanese barberry, garlic mustard and stilt grass invading the heart of the forest. |
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| The barberry bushes have bright red little berries for all the world like Redhot candies. |
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| Palmatine is a constituent of many of these plants, which include goldthread, yellow root, Oregon grape, celandine, and barberry. |
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| In Anglo-American herbal medicine, boldo is combined with barberry and fringe tree to treat gallstones. |
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| Grow thorny plants like agave, barberry, cactus, Natal plum, and yucca under rear windows. |
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| Along the lakefront a curving sweep of barberry and daylilies terminated at gazebos overarched by old apple and willow trees. |
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| Good candidates are aucuba, barberry, forsythia, holly, honey-suckle, hydrangea, spirraea, weigela and even roses. |
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| Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica. |
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| Branches of viburnum, holly, and barberry offer architectural grace notes and still other means for signaling the season. |
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| Commonly encountered shrubs barberry and Oregon graperoot, sumacs, rose, blackberry, raspberry, myrtle, alders and elders. |
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| The driver's area is surrounded by a grid of steel to protect the operator during the blade-belting battle against boxthorn and barberry. |
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| The barberry carpet moth is now fully protected under the Wildlife and Countryside Act. |
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| Examples are rose hips, plums, dogwood fruits, barberry, red currant, mulberry, nutmeg fruits, figs, blackberries, and others. |
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| Crab apples and viburnums are also good for wildlife, and pyracanthus, burning bush, and barberry provide winter food after their bitter berries have been softened by frosts. |
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| We cut through the Japanese barberry with clippers to get to a wet area. |
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| Rugged shrubs like barberry and potentilla give the garden permanent structure, while the rocks help protect the plants from searing winds and keep the soil from drying out. |
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| When plants such as barberry, grapevine, ornamental grasses, and smoke bush are in their full glory, they create a garden's final drama of the year. |
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| As Graham stood on the top of the wooden step ladders, trimming away at the box, and the barberry that tangled into it, he glanced down at the cat. |
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| In a story, he thought, what a man observes might shadow forth his fate: wild roses, barberry, Indian corn. |
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| For sunny areas, you have an even wider choice: alyssum, sedum, thyme, bloodred geranium or shrubs such as cotoneaster, juniper or barberry. |
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| Particularly however it knows to report of Zizi and Zizewi, the warbler couple, that built its nest into the bristly branches of the barberry. |
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| Even higher, in the silent kingdom of high rocks, there lives the rarest barberry of Etna. |
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| Thunberg barberry is especially spectacular in autumn due to intense coloration of leaves and bright fruit. |
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| The shrubs planted as hedges, such as hornbeam, privet, common maple or barberry, grow broad below and narrow on top as individual plants. |
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| Other than giant forest trees, you'll find abundant barberry, winged Euonymus, Oriental bittersweet, Japanese wineberry, and shrub and vine honeysuckles. |
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| Many birds love berries of barberry, beautyberry, cotoneaster, currant, elderberry, gooseberry, holly, mahonia, mountain ash, nandina, pyracantha, and strawberry tree. |
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| Plants to consider in the treatment of iron deficiency include agrimony, centaury, barberry, ginger, nettle and yellow dock. |
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| Prickly ash, black locust, barberry, buckthorn, and maples in the shrub layer were killed, while young oaks appeared unaffected. |
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| It is the barberry family and is represented not only by the true barberries but by nandinas, mahonias and epimediums as well. |
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| Zyflamend includes rosemary, turmeric, ginger, holy basil, green tea, hu zhang, Chinese goldthread, barberry, oregano, and Baikal skullcap. |
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| Shrubs like barberry or escallonia are dense enough to be used as a windbreak for cold winter winds, or they can be arranged to funnel breezes toward the house during the summer. |
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| Antihistaminic and anticholinergic activity of barberry ruit in the guinea-pig ileum. |
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| For shrubs with fall color, plant barberry, cotoneaster, mahonia, nandina, or pyracantha. |
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| It includes proprietary extracts of rosemary, turmeric, ginger, holy basil, green tea, hu zhang, Chinese goldthread, barberry, oregano, and Baikal skullcap. |
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| The islands also house many rare and endangered species of plants, including the island barberry, the island rushrose, and the Santa Cruz Island lace pod. |
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