Carolina Buckthorn is the perfect shrub to attract birds to your garden. Its red berries will be a visual delight for you and a feast for songbirds. Delicate pale yellow flowers which bloom in spring are not particularly showy, but offer ample benefits for native bees and butterflies. With a colonizing habit and attractive, glossy leaves, this is the perfect plant to include in a wildlife hedge. A very useful and overlooked plant that deserves to be more widely planted.
Conditions: Full sun to part shade; moist to average soil
Size: 12'-15' tall, 12'-15' spread
Zone: 5 - 9
Wildlife Value: Berries are a food source for birds; attracts an array of pollinators
Photo: Samantha Nestory