This evergreen shrub that produces white flowers in May and June and bright red berries in the fall and winter. The female plant produces the berries when a separate male pollinizer plant is nearby.

Skimmia japonica, commonly called skimmia is a shade loving, evergreen plant that has a rounded growth habit. It can grow to 4 feet in height It has attractive clusters of flowers in the spring, but ...

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At this time of year, the female plants of skimmia carry clusters of bright red berries. Strangely, birds do not take the berries, which last on the bush from their time of formation in late summer ...