I've grown it from spring cuttings, but never had luck with fall cuttings. I gathered some berries the other day to try to grow some. If they don't do, I'll take cuttings in the spring.

I've never seen the beauty berries so thick as they are this year. But then the Goldenrod is only now beginning to show. Also the wild sunflowers that we have on our property haven't shown up at all yet. I guess it's all due to so much rain this summer.

rita, I'm glad you got rain! We got barely any. Our pond didn't even fill up. I do love those wild fall sunflowers.

I just found a small plant and dug it up and replanted it. It seemed quite healthy but produced only a few berries. Better luck next year.

Beauty berries bloom on new wood. If you trim them back in the winter, early spring before they grow and bud, you get way more berries. I cut mine back about 1/3 of the way and this year I got gobs of berries.

Be patient with the berries. The first year I grew them from berry it took almost all winter before they sprouted.

sultry,

Thanks for the tip on starting from cuttings.

I'll give that a try. My wife makes beautyberry jelly so some extra free plants would help out.