KISMA and Wild Ones Barberry Trade Up Day Moves to L’Anse

KISMA and Keweenaw WildOnes Barberry trade-up day moves south to L’Anse later this week. On Thursday residents around the L’Anse and Baraga area can dig up old barberry bushes in their yards. Stop by the DPW garage, drop off the barberry, and receive a 10-dollar gift certificate for a local nursery. Japanese and European barberry plants are an invasive species that was once used commonly in landscaping As the plant fell out of fashion, the bushes remained, and have been inherited by the next homeowner. The plants are described as a woody understory invasive shrub that can live in many different soil and light conditions. It has small, oval-shaped leaves about 1-2 centimeters in length with smooth margins, turning bright red to purple in the fall. It also has sharp spines at leaf nodes. The plant blooms from April-May, and produces small, yellow flowers and red, egg-shaped berries. And stems are a reddish brown and turn gray as they age, inside of the stem and roots are bright yellow.

Those interested in dropping off barberry plants at the L’Anse DPW Garage can drop off plants between 4 – 7 pm.

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