Winter can feel like nature’s way of hitting the snooze button. Frosty mornings, bare trees, and endless shades of gray often ...

Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) is the shrub that keeps your garden colorful long after most plants have gone dormant. By late fall, its glossy green leaves drop, revealing branches dotted with ...

With so many different holly cultivars and holly look-alikes, at least one is bound to work in your garden. Here are 15 ...

The wildlife in your yard will appreciate winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata ‘Winter Red’). The native deciduous shrub loses its 1 1/2- to 3-inch lance-shaped glossy leaves in fall. The small ...

The winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) is a native plant that is found in swamps and wet woods throughout the East, ranging from Alabama up to Canada. This shrubby plant prefers acid soils and can ...

Well, here we are, folks. The Christmas tree has been stripped and unceremoniously tossed to the curb. The stockings and ornaments are back in their basement home. The last of the stale cookies have ...

Our recent hard rain knocked the petals off every single tiger lily in my garden. Other later-blooming lilies are weathering our weather. I also noticed the “Sonic Bloom Pearl” reblooming weigela is ...

Holly plants such as the Christmas holly are beautiful shrubs that make excellent mixed borders, hedges, and foundation plantings. They also look striking as a stand-alone specimen. People often ...

Last summer, I delighted in watching my robin friends use our raspberry bushes like runways. As one swooped in to gobble up a berry that seemed almost too big for its beak, another was departing the ...

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