If you're looking to add year-round visual interest to your outdoor space, you may want to consider introducing this ...

Three have red berries and the fourth has purplish black. They are each different and each beautiful. The scientific (Latin) Genus name for holly always begins with Ilex. Ilex opaca (American ...

The berries are edible for birds but not humans. White fringetree is dioecious, with separate male and female plants. Planting both ensures a beautiful flower display and fruit set. Holly (Ilex spp.): ...

American Holly is Ilex opaca), Pantin says: “That’s something you can take to your local nursery.” Note also that in some species only female plants produce berries (and require a male plant nearby ...

Evergreen shrubs such as boxwood, holly, rhododendron, yew and arborvitae provide year-round green color in the landscape. Thanks to plant-breeding technology, many different size cultivars are ...

Holly berries are an important winter food source for wildlife. If you’re looking for a dependable evergreen holly, Stagg suggests the American holly (Ilex opaca). The tree naturally forms a ...

Those festively colored berries also provide an important winter ... Hollies are woody ornamental species that belong to the genus Ilex. There are more than 400 species of hollies in the world ...

Possumhaw (Ilex decidua): A deciduous native Texas holly that sheds its leaves in winter, revealing dazzling clusters of red berries. It thrives in naturalistic settings and provides a brilliant ...

Even without the English species, you can still have holly. “There are other plants in the genus Ilex with similar leaves and berries that will work much better here,” Campbell said.

Berries are a lot of fun in winter, and the most prolific is Ilex verticillata, a deciduous holly. Rated zone 4, its berries will last all winter and well into spring. They are also a bird’s ...

Some berries, such as winterberry (Ilex verticillata) and beautyberry (Callicarpa dichotoma) become palatable to birds only after several freeze/thaw cycles. So they hang in for months of vibrant ...