thanks for this - I moved to a new property recently and there's a massive barberry out front. I've already ordered the replacement for it, so have no choice but to remove!
Same with me.. bought a house & have one of these beasts next to my driveway... ugg... i hate it! Will sunflowers grow in that spot after i get it out?? I read that barberry alters the soil ph making it difficult for other plants to establish.
Thanks for info. This shrub appeared in back of house after having trees removed 2 years ago. Unfortunately the trees had severe lean toward house and where growing quite tall. I was going to remove the shrub when it was small but since I thought it was native and we don’t plant in that area, due to cliff and big boulders I left it. The birds seemed to enjoy it as it grew as they fly in an out all year long. I thought it was a native plant as I did not plant and it is on the side of Road I see patches of it everywhere. Now going to have to remove it as ticks not something I want and I know mice abound. Will have to replace with something for birds. Lots of berry choices that grow native that the birds love. Hopefully UTV can yank that thing out of there while I decide what to plant.
Hi Terri, yes, it will be a challenge to remove the barberry but keeping them will only result in more of them growing in the area and removal becoming even more difficult as one works amid the thorns.
Borrow a 2 ton come-along and anchor it to another tree. Thx for post. I was about to buy one of these because I've noticed how much the smaller birds love them. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so now thinking I'll plant an Oregon grape instead.
If you have a spare tire on a rim, you can run the rope/cable over the top and it will create a lifting motion that will pull it right out. It's a good idea to soak the ground deeply first. Good luck
I just discovered this video! Thank you! How did you dispose of what you cut? What is the best way to discard/destroy the barberry roots and limbs so that they don't find their way into somebody else's land? I'm concerned that if we dispose of it in the town landfill, it will propagate there. Thank you in advance for your help.
Several studies have been done in Connecticut discussing the connection between Japanese barberry and ticks. Here is an example of one, you are free to use the internet and look up the information for yourself. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22182557/
Thanks for commenting Javier. You're right, since it's so ubiquitous it's important for gardeners to know the problems and be able to make better shrub choices.
I love barberries. They are great in a more urban setting like where I live. You can easily prune it, no reason to let it become overgrown. No ticks in my area, thank heavens. So bottom line, it really depends on your area.
But there are so many better alternatives that actually support the wildlife and biodiversity in your area. The creatures need our help now more than ever ❤️
Lol. There are plenty of deer proof natives. Native plants feed the ecosystem, full stop. With 85% of the land East of the Mississippi privately owned we have to make room for wildlife by planting native plants. My suggestion is to either read a Doug Tallamy book or watch some of his presentations on TH-cam to learn why natives. Barberry is invasive in every setting because birds eat it and poop it out wherever they are including migrating birds that eat on their way south. It also does nothing support any Lepidoptera larvae that feed them food web. Our forests are overrun with it because birds eat the berries and poop it out. Field mice are the only native vertebrates that can survive and procreate in our now mixed- barberry forests ecosystems and thus why there are more ticks and lyme’s disease. So no barberry is not ever appropriate. Even the new noninvasive barberry have been shown to revert back after a few years.
I don't. Insecticides kill many insects-not only ticks-and I'm trying to improve the ecosystem by encouraging insects. One can protect oneself from ticks through proper clothing and checking for them.
I was just at the nursery today hunting for something to replace the three barberry shrubs that were planted in my front yard. They’ve been pruned over the years, so they are small but woody. My main reason besides them be a nuisance are those horrible thorns! Those thorns HURT. They go through all types of fabrics, i hate those plants. Home Depot had three different versions of them too.
We just moved to Connecticut from Los Angeles, and discovered that our 20 acres of forest is rife with Japanese barberry! The ticks here are terrible, and the barberry is extremely difficult to get rid of. It prevents us from exploring a large percentage of our woods. I can’t tell you how much I hate the stuff, and how much I hate when I see it used as an ornamental or a hedge! I doubt that we will ever get the barberry under control, but we have to keep trying.
Get a small herd of goats or hire goat weeders to come in. They can clear fast and safely. Or get a brush hog and periodically mow them away. Shrubs do not tolerate mowing. Good luck. In their place I hope you plant and cage oaks, hickories, and other natives. If that’s an appropriate selection. Maybe you live in a native pine barren ecosystem. Either way becoming the steward of our yards is such a fun and exciting privilege.
What your not looking at is the fact it’s medicinal..a very potent medicine as in a antibiotic, regulators blood sugars in diabetes patients, treats staphylococcus and streptococcus and so much more..I have several bushes in my woods and grateful for it.
@@traceyb.r.e5525 ~Yes,..especially since WE all need to learn about our plants that grow around us that we think is a weed or a invasive bush most all are some sort of medicinal as well as edible..as our medical system gets worse and worse we will not have a choice but to revert back to what has been provided to treat sickness and diseases before modern medicine took over most making us even sicker..that’s my opinion anyway.
Japanese barberry is well known in the northeast as an invasive shrub that outcompetes our native plants and therefore damages local ecosystems for the wildlife that depends on our native plants. This is why several states in the northeast ban its sale. Many of those native plants it outcompetes have medicinal uses as well and were used by Native Americans, not so the case for Japanese barberry since it is from Asia.
Japanese barberry is well known as an invasive shrub in the northeast with several states banning its sale. Sometimes gardeners are only looking at what they see in their own gardens and are unaware that it has spread to surrounding areas.
Non native species have a huge impact on habitats. they tend to compete with native species that have already adapted to the flora and fauna of a given place. It can effect wild animals too.
"How to Lie with Statistics" - Sorry, I believe you're just repeating what you've learned, but a shrub (ANY shrub) is not "a tick magnet". The Barberry is Deer resistant, meaning Deer (one of the Wood Ticks favorite hosts) is not interested in Barberry; they will eat it only as a last resort... which means that the Ticks (who lay their egg masses in tall grasses and fallen leaves, not in shrubs) and hatch in an area with a high population of Barberries, won't be likely to encounter the Deer they love to feed on... As ticks respond to ground vibration / movement to find their hosts. No deer in the immediate area = lots of hungry and dormant ticks.... So when a human ventures into the Barberry bushes, they are the first host the tick encounters, hence the PERCEPTION that the Barberry is "a tick magnet", it's not. It's a "Deer Repellant". Completely different thing.
Several studies have been done in Connecticut discussing the connection between Japanese barberry and ticks. Here is an example of one, you are free to use the internet and look up the information for yourself. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22182557/
Thank you for educating and creating this video. I'm working on getting rid of 2 in my front yard and hope to replace with natives.
Hi Beth, thanks for commenting and good luck with their removal. You are doing the ecosystem a great favor by removing them!
YOU HATE IT SO MUCH YOU CAN'T TRIM IT LOL SHILL - IT'S AN ANTIFUNGAL ANTI INFLAMMATORY MEDICINAL PLANT.
thanks for this - I moved to a new property recently and there's a massive barberry out front. I've already ordered the replacement for it, so have no choice but to remove!
Thanks for improving the ecosystem by removing it!
Same with me.. bought a house & have one of these beasts next to my driveway... ugg... i hate it! Will sunflowers grow in that spot after i get it out?? I read that barberry alters the soil ph making it difficult for other plants to establish.
Thanks for info. This shrub appeared in back of house after having trees removed 2 years ago. Unfortunately the trees had severe lean toward house and where growing quite tall. I was going to remove the shrub when it was small but since I thought it was native and we don’t plant in that area, due to cliff and big boulders I left it. The birds seemed to enjoy it as it grew as they fly in an out all year long. I thought it was a native plant as I did not plant and it is on the side of Road I see patches of it everywhere. Now going to have to remove it as ticks not something I want and I know mice abound. Will have to replace with something for birds. Lots of berry choices that grow native that the birds love. Hopefully UTV can yank that thing out of there while I decide what to plant.
Hi Terri, yes, it will be a challenge to remove the barberry but keeping them will only result in more of them growing in the area and removal becoming even more difficult as one works amid the thorns.
Same here. Thank you for this informative video!
My pleasure! Thank you for commenting and for using native plants!
the one thing about japanese barberries is that its choked out other amazing shrub plants like the native winterberry in parts of PA.
Borrow a 2 ton come-along and anchor it to another tree. Thx for post. I was about to buy one of these because I've noticed how much the smaller birds love them. I live in the Pacific Northwest, so now thinking I'll plant an Oregon grape instead.
If you have a spare tire on a rim, you can run the rope/cable over the top and it will create a lifting motion that will pull it right out. It's a good idea to soak the ground deeply first. Good luck
I just discovered this video! Thank you! How did you dispose of what you cut? What is the best way to discard/destroy the barberry roots and limbs so that they don't find their way into somebody else's land? I'm concerned that if we dispose of it in the town landfill, it will propagate there. Thank you in advance for your help.
Thanks for being considerate. I did dispose of it with the municipal pickup but it sat for a week drying out on my property before it went there.
I don't understand the tick connection. I am unconvinced. : / Is there somewhere I could see the study online?
Several studies have been done in Connecticut discussing the connection between Japanese barberry and ticks. Here is an example of one, you are free to use the internet and look up the information for yourself. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22182557/
thanks for the information. very important
Thanks for commenting Javier. You're right, since it's so ubiquitous it's important for gardeners to know the problems and be able to make better shrub choices.
YOU HATE IT SO MUCH YOU CAN'T TRIM IT LOL SHILL - IT'S AN ANTIFUNGAL ANTI INFLAMMATORY MEDICINAL PLANT.
I love barberries. They are great in a more urban setting like where I live. You can easily prune it, no reason to let it become overgrown. No ticks in my area, thank heavens. So bottom line, it really depends on your area.
But there are so many better alternatives that actually support the wildlife and biodiversity in your area. The creatures need our help now more than ever ❤️
Lol. There are plenty of deer proof natives. Native plants feed the ecosystem, full stop. With 85% of the land East of the Mississippi privately owned we have to make room for wildlife by planting native plants.
My suggestion is to either read a Doug Tallamy book or watch some of his presentations on TH-cam to learn why natives.
Barberry is invasive in every setting because birds eat it and poop it out wherever they are including migrating birds that eat on their way south.
It also does nothing support any Lepidoptera larvae that feed them food web.
Our forests are overrun with it because birds eat the berries and poop it out. Field mice are the only native vertebrates that can survive and procreate in our now mixed- barberry forests ecosystems and thus why there are more ticks and lyme’s disease.
So no barberry is not ever appropriate. Even the new noninvasive barberry have been shown to revert back after a few years.
How long had this bush been growing?
I messed up, I just bought 2 and THEN I looked for info about planting them. NO way am I going through with it. I'll return them or burn them.
Over 10 years.
Maybe if they had pruned it probably over the years it would have turned into a problem
Is it possible to use insecticide to reduce chance of ticks in your garden?
I don't. Insecticides kill many insects-not only ticks-and I'm trying to improve the ecosystem by encouraging insects. One can protect oneself from ticks through proper clothing and checking for them.
Yes, if you don't mind putting carcinogens in your soil.
I was just at the nursery today hunting for something to replace the three barberry shrubs that were planted in my front yard. They’ve been pruned over the years, so they are small but woody. My main reason besides them be a nuisance are those horrible thorns! Those thorns HURT. They go through all types of fabrics, i hate those plants. Home Depot had three different versions of them too.
We just moved to Connecticut from Los Angeles, and discovered that our 20 acres of forest is rife with Japanese barberry! The ticks here are terrible, and the barberry is extremely difficult to get rid of.
It prevents us from exploring a large percentage of our woods.
I can’t tell you how much I hate the stuff, and how much I hate when I see it used as an ornamental or a hedge!
I doubt that we will ever get the barberry under control, but we have to keep trying.
Get a small herd of goats or hire goat weeders to come in. They can clear fast and safely. Or get a brush hog and periodically mow them away. Shrubs do not tolerate mowing. Good luck. In their place I hope you plant and cage oaks, hickories, and other natives. If that’s an appropriate selection. Maybe you live in a native pine barren ecosystem. Either way becoming the steward of our yards is such a fun and exciting privilege.
Does it produce berries?
Hi Mara, yes it does, and that's part of the problem. Birds eat them and deposit them in our woods, helping to spread them.
What your not looking at is the fact it’s medicinal..a very potent medicine as in a antibiotic, regulators blood sugars in diabetes patients, treats staphylococcus and streptococcus and so much more..I have several bushes in my woods and grateful for it.
@@traceyb.r.e5525 ~Yes,..especially since WE all need to learn about our plants that grow around us that we think is a weed or a invasive bush most all are some sort of medicinal as well as edible..as our medical system gets worse and worse we will not have a choice but to revert back to what has been provided to treat sickness and diseases before modern medicine took over most making us even sicker..that’s my opinion anyway.
Japanese barberry is well known in the northeast as an invasive shrub that outcompetes our native plants and therefore damages local ecosystems for the wildlife that depends on our native plants. This is why several states in the northeast ban its sale. Many of those native plants it outcompetes have medicinal uses as well and were used by Native Americans, not so the case for Japanese barberry since it is from Asia.
If you pruned it properly over the 25 years it would not have become a problem. I planted one 17 years ago. Not a problem. No ticks. It didnt spread.
Japanese barberry is well known as an invasive shrub in the northeast with several states banning its sale. Sometimes gardeners are only looking at what they see in their own gardens and are unaware that it has spread to surrounding areas.
You contributed to its spread. Every time it produced seeds birds ate them and distributed at the seeds wherever they defecated.
OMG Berberis thunbergii is invasive species oversees!?
They are red list in Japan...
Control environment is so difficult.
It seems to me like you're painting this species in a bad colour just because it's no native.
No, because it is the catalyst for disease. But even if that was the case, so what??? Lol.
Non native species have a huge impact on habitats. they tend to compete with native species that have already adapted to the flora and fauna of a given place. It can effect wild animals too.
I just bought one and instantly regret it
There are no tics where I live
Pull it out with a lawn tractor.
I was thinking a come along. She can't get a vehicle back there.
"How to Lie with Statistics" - Sorry, I believe you're just repeating what you've learned, but a shrub (ANY shrub) is not "a tick magnet". The Barberry is Deer resistant, meaning Deer (one of the Wood Ticks favorite hosts) is not interested in Barberry; they will eat it only as a last resort... which means that the Ticks (who lay their egg masses in tall grasses and fallen leaves, not in shrubs) and hatch in an area with a high population of Barberries, won't be likely to encounter the Deer they love to feed on... As ticks respond to ground vibration / movement to find their hosts. No deer in the immediate area = lots of hungry and dormant ticks.... So when a human ventures into the Barberry bushes, they are the first host the tick encounters, hence the PERCEPTION that the Barberry is "a tick magnet", it's not. It's a "Deer Repellant". Completely different thing.
Several studies have been done in Connecticut discussing the connection between Japanese barberry and ticks. Here is an example of one, you are free to use the internet and look up the information for yourself. pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22182557/
@@NativePlantChannelI read that ticks hate lavender. I wonder if I plant lavender around my tangelo barberry, will it deter ticks?
lowes has tons of this stuff for spring planting. lowes is a junk store really.
Thanks for commenting. The big box stores are not where gardeners can find native plants.
@@NativePlantChannelnative plants are ugly. You have terrible taste