Description
Description: ‘Crimson Pygmy’ is a form that grows only about 2 feet tall and perhaps 4 or more feet wide with good red-purplish foliage when grown in full sun. It is an excellent low-growing plant that can give a contrast of color in rock gardens, or it can be used to give some red color in a dwarf conifer garden since it stays small. It could also be used for low hedging as it can be sheared as well as the larger type plant. Barberry is quite resistant to most diseases and insects and will tolerate relatively poor soil conditions, as well as droughty areas once it is well established. ‘Crimson Pygmy’ is plenty hardy, but remember it is deciduous so it doesn’t look like much during the winter. Although, as a low mound of tightly woven branches, the effect that it gives in the winter months is not unpleasant.