Plant in full sun to light shade and water deeply on occasion or give more regular irrigation. Cold hardy to 10 degrees. A nice large shrub as a stand alone shrub or useful as a screening hedge.

This cultivar was selected by Lee Lenz at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden who described the plant as a chance hybrid between 3 different Mahonia (the older name for Berberis) species, Mahonia piperiana, M. aquifolium and M. amplectans. Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden filed for a patent on it on June 4, 1971 and U.S. Plant Patent 3,332 was awarded on May 15, 1973. This was the first patent on a plant selection granted to a California botanic garden. Lee Lenz felt this plant merited attention as it was more vigorous and upright than its parents with dark glossy green leaves and larger terminal inflorescences held in great abundance as well as many lateral inflorescences produced along the stems. He also noted that after flowering it produced "numerous and drooping racemes of globose, purplish-blue fruit with a bloom." This plant has been in cultivation since the early 1970's and has proven itself a great hedge or accent plant in gardens from Seattle in the north to the heat of the central valley of California (where is should be given some afternoon shade) and all along the coast of California. 

Information displayed on this page about Berberis 'Golden Abundance' is based on our research conducted about this plant in our nursery library as well as from information provided by reliable online resources. We also include our own observations made about it as it has grown in the nursery gardens and other gardens visited, as well how the crops of this plant performed in the containers in our nursery field. We will also include comments received from others and welcome hearing from anyone who has information about this plant, particularly if it includes cultural information aiding others to better grow it.