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 ...

Also blooming all year round is Duranta erecta, called thian thong in Thai. My own plant is never without lovely purple flowers, borne in panicles, which butterflies find irresistible.

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.