Deciduous shrub red-leaf barberry seedlings and seeds: roughly how much do they cost? Is it an evergreen shrub? What are the planting and cultivation techniques and methods?

Red-leaf barberry generally refers to purple-leaf barberry (Berberis thunbergii f. atropurpurea), native to southern Northeast China, North China and the Qinling Mountains. It blooms in April, with yellow flowers. The fruit is oval and turns a beautiful bright red when ripe.So roughly how much do red-leaf barberry seedlings and seeds cost? Is it an evergreen shrub? What are the planting and cultivation techniques and methods? According to Mr. He from the Jiujiang nursery base, the price of 80CM red-leaf barberry is 38~45 yuan; 100CM is 45~60 yuan; 110CM is 65~85 yuan; 140CM is 120~160 yuan. The price of its seeds is around 50 yuan/jin.

Is red-leaf barberry an evergreen shrub?

Red-leaf barberry is not an evergreen shrub.

Purple-leaf barberry is a natural variety of Japanese barberry. Deciduous shrub. Young branches are pale red with green, hairless; old branches are dark red with ridges; internodes 1-1.5 cm long. Leaves are rhombic-ovate, 5-20 (35) mm long, 3-15 mm wide, with a blunt tip, the base tapering downward into a short petiole, entire margins, yellowish-green on the upper surface, grayish-white on the underside, with fine papillae, hairless on both surfaces. Flowers are borne 2-5 together in nearly umbellate clusters with short common peduncles, or clustered without a common peduncle; pedicels 5-15 mm long; perianth yellow; bracteoles reddish, about 2 mm long, acute; outer sepals ovate, 4-5 mm long, about 2.5 mm wide, with a nearly blunt tip; inner sepals slightly larger than the outer sepals; petals oblong-obovate, 5.5-6 mm long, about 3.5 mm wide, with a slightly notched tip, glands close together above the base; stamens 3-3.5 mm long, anthers truncate at the tip. Berry red, ellipsoid, about 10 mm long, slightly glossy, containing 1-2 seeds.

What are the planting and cultivation techniques and methods for red-leaf barberry?

Red-leaf barberry can be grown both by sowing and by cuttings.

1. Carry out in early April. In autumn, collect ripe berries from the mother plant, remove the fruit skin, soak the seeds in warm water at 40°C, and after 24 hours remove them and store them in sand, turning them frequently and keeping them moist. When the seed germination rate reaches 30% and the seeds split open and sprout, they are ready for sowing. The sowing bed should use sandy loam soil; sow the seeds evenly, cover the bed surface with 0.5-1 cm of the original bed soil, cover with a little straw, then spray with clean water. Keep the bed surface moist; the seedling emergence rate reaches about 80%.

2. Propagation by cuttings includes softwood cuttings and hardwood cuttings.

Softwood cuttings are taken in June. Soak the prepared cuttings in 0.1% potassium permanganate for 15 hours, then insert them into a seedbed with fine river sand as the medium and spray with water until thoroughly wet. The moisture of the seedbed medium should be kept moist.

Hardwood cuttings are taken in April. Collect 2-year-old well-developed shoots, soak the cuttings in 0.1% potassium permanganate for 20 hours, then insert them into a seedbed with fine river sand as the medium, water thoroughly after insertion, and manage the rest in the same way as softwood cuttings. Softwood cuttings have a higher survival rate than hardwood cuttings.

3. Pests and diseases and their control: Purple-leaf barberry has few pests and diseases. There is a small amount of damage from the large bagworm moth; adults can be trapped and killed with black lights or sex pheromones, or controlled with Bacillus thuringiensis.

Uses: widely used in urban greening and plant landscaping, with high ornamental value.