The plant blooms from early summer to early fall with the most profuse number of flowers in mid-summer. With a long tap root (it’s a member of the carrot family!), it’s drought-tolerant and actually ...

It seems pretty simple to plant a tree. Dig a hole. Drop in a tree. Fill the hole. Add water. Go back inside and have a beer. What could go wrong? Yet year after year, we see trees planted incorrectly ...

The holly berries are especially good this year, and my own holly trees are smothered with bright red berries. Well, most of them are. I have one covered with yellow berries – but more of that later.

As you're reading this, my brother and I will be ransacking our mother's holly tree. Hers is a classic Christmas variety with dark, lustrous leaves and masses of bright berries. Hardly surprising, ...

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 ...

In this season where many of us have begun using foliages from evergreens, the holly plant is not overlooked. There is a long history of the use of holly which goes back to before the Christian era.

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," not ...