I just love the American holly that lives at our house. It constantly brings pleasure and nourishment to our lives, to the garden, and to the land around us. This lovely tree is home to a pair of ...

American holly is an iconic plant associated with winter holiday festivities. Following are questions I have received about its ecology and its connection to Christmas. Q. We experience a backyard ...

The biggest and brightest berries on trees and shrubs, especially hollies, typically appear just in time to welcome the holiday season, making your landscape look merry. At the College of William & ...

Like mistletoe and poinsettia, holly is an iconic plant associated with holiday festivities in winter. Each year I receive questions about these prickly leaved trees with red berries. Some are about ...

A snow-covered branch of wild American holly, thriving in the understory of a patch of woods in Anne Arundel County, Md. (Photo by T. F. Sayles) As I walked through a tiny wooded trail near my home, I ...

Today is Christmas. While the Christmas tree takes front-and-center stage in the holiday season — supported by a cast of poinsettias, cyclamens, kalanchoes, Christmas cactuses and amaryllises — ...