Landscape Notes: An improved 'Crimson Pygmy' with vivid, dark red, colorfast foliage, excellent for adding low-maintenance color to the landscape from spring to fall. Use this compact selection to brighten beds and borders, or as a mass planting. Deer resistant. Tolerates urban conditions.

Exposure/Culture: Grow the Sunjoy® Mini Salsa Barberry in full sun for the best leaf coloring. It thrives even in zone 4, and in all warmer zones too. It loves sun, heat and poor soil, enjoying rocky ground, urban conditions and heavy clay – literally anywhere it isn’t always wet. Pests and diseases are normally never an issue, and deer leave it alone. You can trim older plants in early spring for the neatest look, if you wish to, but it’s not essential.

Other Notes: The Sunjoy®x Mini Salsa Barberry is that ideal plant – one that is colorful, compact and that needs virtually no attention at all. Its vibrant deep purple-red leaves hold their color right through from spring until they drop in late fall, and their glossy look is always attractive. Grow it as a border around beds, along paths and driveways, and in rocky places in your garden. It is extremely dense, reaching no more than 2 feet tall, and it is so neat that trimming is an optional extra.