Growth plays a major role in garden design with trees. Shrubs are usually selected according to the criteria “deciduous” or “evergreen”. Rarely, however, does the fruit decoration influence the decision. Orange berries set a wonderful color accent.
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shrubs
The orange berries on shrubs can usually only be seen in autumn. With these five shrubs you set a colorful accent in a cloudy season.
Celastrus orbiculatus
- Occurrence: on house walls, arbours, pergolas
- climbing shrub
- Fruits: orange-yellow, capsule-shaped, orange-red seed coat
- deciduous
- Growth: strongly twining climbing plant
- Growth height: 800 to 1,200 centimeters
- Growth width: 400 to 800 centimeters
- Flowers: green-yellow, inconspicuous, in June
- Leaves: light green, oval to round
- Location: sun to semi-shade
- Soil: undemanding
Feuerdorn (Pyracantha)
The fruits of the bushes, ripening in the fall, can be yellow, red-orange. Orange berries bear the varieties “Golden Chamer” (orange-gold), “Orange Charmer” (strong orange-red), “Organe Glow” (orange-yellow), “Saphyr Orange” (bright orange).
- Occurrence: Gardens and parks
- Solitaire or hedge
- Fruits: Pea-sized on clusters, ripens in September, winters
- evergreen ornamental shrub with thorny branches
- Growth: upright, bushy
- Growth height: up to 400 centimeters (depending on variety)
- Growth width: up to 400 centimeters (depending on variety)
- Flowers: white umbels from May to June
- Leaves: dark green, leathery, lanceolate
- Location: sun to semi-shade
- Soil: normal garden soil
War spider (Euonymus fortunei) “Coloratus”
- Occurrence: garden, cemeteries, house walls, rock gardens
- Fruits: orange-red, capsule-shaped, about 0.6 centimeters wide
- evergreen
- Habit: Ground cover or climbing shrub
- Height of growth: up to 500 centimeters (climbing plant), up to 50 centimeters (ground cover)
- Growth width: up to 100 centimeters (ground cover)
- Flowers: inconspicuous, greenish-yellow cymes from June to July
- Leaves: dark green, matt glossy, extremely variable in shape and size
- Location: sun to shade
- Soil: normal, nutritious garden soil
Sanddorn (Hippophae rhamnoides)
The “orange” of the sea buckthorn varies from yellow-orange to orange-red, depending on the variety.
- Occurrence: Gardens, parks, roadsides, light pine forests, dry river meadows, gravel fields, rocky slopes, gravel banks of mountain streams (up to 1,800 meters)
- Solitaire or hedge
- fruits: oval, 0.6 to 0.8 centimeters long, sessile in racemes
- Harvest time: August to October (depending on variety)
- deciduous shrub with thorny branches
- Growth: upright
- Growth height: up to 500 centimeters (depending on variety)
- Growth width: up to 300 centimeters (depending on variety)
- Flowers: greenish-brown, inconspicuous, from March to April
- Leaves: green or silvery green, linear-lanceolate
- Location: sun to semi-shade
- Soil: normal garden soil
Pigeonberry ‘Geisha Girl’ (Heavenly Blossom, bot. Duranta erecta)
- Occurrence: container plant (not hardy)
- Solitär
- Früchte: kugelförmig (bis 1,1 Zentimeter im Durchmesser, ab Herbst
- sommergrüner, mehrjähriger Zierstrauch
- Wuchs: überhängend
- Wuchshöhe: 60 bis 100 Zentimeter
- Blüte: bis zu 20 Zentimeter lange, blauviolette Rispenblüten von Juli bis September
- Blätter: dunkelgrün, lanzettlich
- Standort: Halbschatten bis Sonne
- Boden: durchlässig, locker, nährstoffreich
Caution: The leaves and berries are poisonous to humans, dogs and cats, but are eaten by birds.
trees
Orange is usually used as a signal color. But not all trees with orange berries are poisonous and can certainly be grown in the home garden.
Swedish Whitebeam (Oxelberry, bot. Sorbus intermedia)
The fruits of the oxelberry are orange to scarlet and edible.
- Occurrence: in north-eastern Germany in the wild, otherwise in gardens, parks or as a street tree
- solitaire
- Fruits: spherical to ovoid, up to one centimeter across, in racemes, from autumn, hibernates
- Harvest time: after the first frost
- deciduous trees with fall colors
- Growth: one or more stems, dense crown
- Growth height: up to 1,500 centimeters
- Growth width: up to 500 centimeters (depending on variety)
- Flowers: white to creamy white umbels, from May to June
- Leaves: Dark green above, gray felty underside, broadly ovate, lobed, up to 10 centimeters
- Location: sun to semi-shade
- Soil: undemanding, tolerates dry and calcareous soil
Vogelbeere (Eberesche, Sorbus aucuparia)
Wild rowan trees bear red fruits. Orange berries are only found on cultivated varieties, such as “Rosina” and “Fingerprint” (both orange-red).
- Occurrence: Gardens, parks, avenues
- Solitaire or group
- Fruits: pea-sized on clusters, from the end of August to the end of October, hibernates (fingerprint)
- deciduous trees with fall colors
- Growth: upright, later overhanging (Rosina), columnar (fingerprint)
- Height of growth: up to 1,000 centimetres
- Growth width: 400 to 450 centimeters
- Flowers: white umbelliferous flowers, from May to June
- Leaves: (dark) green, pinnate
- Location: sun to semi-shade
- Soil: Normal, well-drained garden soil
