While holly trees, or Ilex, are deemed to be some of the easiest evergreen trees to grow, if you have a specimen without berries it can be disappointing, especially during the holiday season.

Sweetspire ( Itea virginiana) — This shrub can also handle part-shade to full sun and will enjoy wetter soil conditions but ...

Hollies are one of the plants associated with Christmas. Their dark, evergreen leaves and bright, red berries fit in with the Christmas season — but what if your hollies never produce berries?

Those available for sale at plant nurseries are almost always female plants to assure the production of berries. Male plants in the Ilex family are common in our area, thus natural pollination is ...

Both male and female plants are necessary to produce the colorful berries. (One male growing nearby will generally pollinate several female plants of the species.) Some varieties -- such as Ilex ...

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.

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 ...

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 species winterberry, Ilex verticillata ... leaving enough older wood for plenty of spring blossoms for next winter's berry show. For some reason, the birds and the squirrels have left the ...

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