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Now, it is a larger and maturing display that includes towering shrubs of buttonbush and bayberry amid lower drifts of lobelia, aster, swamp mallow, goldenrod and winterberry.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2021
More than 100 seedlings, including pin oak, American birch, magnolias and redbuds, plus nearly 400 shrubs, including winterberry, northern bayberry, witch hazel, highbush blueberry and azaleas, will be planted, he said.
From Washington Post ● May 2, 2017
Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberry, huckleberry, viburnum, dogwood, hayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying under the chemical barrage.
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 3, 2017
But by Thanksgiving, the critters denude my winterberry shrubs of their brilliant scarlet berries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 29, 2015
Azaleas, mountain laurel, blueberries, huckleberries, viburnums, dogwood, bayberry, sweet fern, low shadbush, winterberry, chokecherry, and wild plum are dying before the chemical barrage.
From "Silent Spring" by Rachel Carson
And just past the children’s garden, she lingered to admire some winterberries, which appeared scarlet and orange against the gray sky, and a Norwegian spruce that seemed to be extending a branch to her.
From New York Times ● Jan. 28, 2022
But the winterberries you see at the garden center now may look like little more than a nursery pot of sticks and tiny leaves, as will powerful late-season native perennials like asters and goldenrods.
From New York Times ● Apr. 21, 2021
Robins and catbirds will compete for plump, vermilion winterberries.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2017
Inside the City walls the merchants had decorated their shops with pine boughs and winterberries, and the bright sunlight reflected off freshly polished shop windows.
From "Ash" by Malinda Lo
America has fourteen, four of which assume tree form; the rest are shrubby "winterberries."
From Trees Worth Knowing by Julia Ellen Rogers
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