Burford holly is a large shrub, up to 20 feet, that produces abundant red berries among the leathery dark green leaves and is especially beautiful if pruned into a tree form.

It’s hard to imagine the winter holidays without holly and its shiny green leaves and cheery red berries. The use of holly as decoration has its origin in pagan culture but was readily adopted ...

The Japanese holly (I. crenata) is often referred to as the workhorse of landscape gardening, but because it has small, dark green leaves (like those of boxwood) and jet black berries, many folks ...

Deciduous holly, “Possum haw,” Ilex decidua, is not an evergreen holly. If you locate this plant sometime in the middle of the winter, this holly won’t have a single leaf on it.

Right up there with Christmas trees and mistletoe, hollies are the plants most closely connected with any holiday on the American calendar. After all, Bing Crosby sings "The Holly and the Ivy ...

From the sound of the size and habit, I'm going to guess this is an American holly tree (Ilex opaca). These can get 40 to 50 feet tall, but they naturally tend to grow a little more open as they age.

Before the 1800s a Christmas tree was actually a holly tree, not a Douglas fir as we use today. In many regions of the world holly trees provided a low cost way for families to decorate their ...

Today, hollies are available with white, cream, yellow, orange, red or black fruit. Most people growing holly for the first time are surprised to learn that hollies are either male or female.

Leaves and berries on a holly tree after a snowfall. (Advance file photo) STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- In a 1879 survey of plants on Staten Island, ...

Yaupon holly has glossy, leathery, evergreen leaves with toothed margins. In spring it produces small, greenish-white flowers, either male or female, which are borne on separate trees.