Garden pundits speak of “the four-season garden,” promoting the need to plant for wintertime color. The most abundant color source of this season in my corner of New England, however, plants itself.

Want to liven up your winter landscape? If these dreary, winter days lack color and interest in your garden, consider planting winterberry. While their bright-red berries are well known as a festive ...

Q: Has anyone seen cedar waxwings this fall? We have a few winterberry bushes that are loaded with berries and usually by now a flock of cedar waxwings have cleaned them out but haven't seen any at ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Every fall I’m on the lookout for winterberry, a shrub that belongs to the ...

Recently, as I walked by my eastern bluestar, its leafy stems softly brushed my hand. A tender moment in the mostly dormant ...

Looking for a splash of color in your yard amid winter’s dreary landscape? Check out one or more of the many winterberry (Ilex verticillata) cultivars. This deciduous member of the holly family sports ...

Winterberry is a plant that is always recommended you buy from the garden center, so to ensure that you’re getting female plants and the coordinating male pollinators. The key to winterberry ...

My husband likes to call November “stick season,” since most all of the leaves have fallen off the trees by this point in the fall. He says that with a hint of derision, as if the trees and outdoors ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. During the early autumn, I search for the first native wild winterberry’s ...