Though summer may be coming to an end, there's no reason you can't decorate your garden with a bright and bold display of colour even in the winter. Set to create a "breathtaking" contrast to the ...

Readers question: Marjorie, from Guisborough, has a holly tree in her garden that has never produced berries despite flowering. She wonders why this might be, and would like to know if, apart from ...

While some might think of gardening as an activity for just the warmer months, experienced gardeners and plant lovers ...

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 as ...

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 ...

Britain has been basking in one of the warmest autumns on record but that is all about to change... if the tradition of holly trees signalling the arrival of a bitter winter is to be believed. So far ...

The red flash of holly berries will be missing from most people's traditional Christmas decorations this year because the trees have "taken the year off". Holly farmer Nick Coller, from the Broads in ...

Irish holly stocks are continuing to be plundered for Christmas decorations and Crann, the voluntary organisation promoting the planting of trees, has asked the public to report any stripping of trees ...

It seems Christmas tree farms benefit from the fact that Mississippians like to pass down the tradition of choosing and cutting their own trees.

Just one sprig of holly with its glossy, serrated leaves and red berries can transport an arrangement from “any day” to “holiday.” But are holly berries poisonous to pets or children that get a little ...

A FARMER has hit out festive thieves who stripped holly trees of their berries. The theft from four large trees took place in a field near the church in Redmire, near Leyburn, North Yorkshire. Almost ...