Colorful fall fruit can be a great addition to upstate New York landscapes. One of my favorite native plants is winterberry, and you can find it literally growing in swamps across upstate New York. It is a holly plant, so as with all holly, there are both male and female plants. Their fruit can grow in very full this time of the year.

Some other plants with colorful fruit this season that you may want to consider are beautyberry, which is unusual in that it has purple fruit.

Another fruitful plant is the linden viburnum, which is even resistant to the viburnum beetle. More specifically, the red-fruited cultivar “Erie” and the yellow fruited “Michael Dodge” make great additions to the landscape growing to about six feet tall and six feet wide.

Another plant to consider that can be a large shrub or small tree is the Cornelian cherry. It gets about fifteen feet tall and has very tiny pale yellow flowers in early spring and great red fruit in the fall.

Finally, a burning bush that has beautiful orange fruit in the fall, may be something of interest as well.