You may simply leave your cold-damaged duranta (Duranta erecta) alone and wait until spring when, hopefully, you will see new growth sprouting from still-living parts in the lower portions of the ...

A. Yes, the berries are safe for birds but not for people or dogs. I keep my duranta pruned up like a small tree. Birds also eat holly berries that are unsafe for human consumption.

Sapphire showers is an ultra-lovely variety of golden dewdrop (Duranta erecta), a large violet-flowered shrub native from Mexico to South America and the West Indies.