We are at the Winter Solstice. This is the time when we view the sun in its apparent most southern route throughout the year. It is the day of the shortest amount of daylight. Even though the sunsets ...

Winter Red will get 6 to 9 feet tall and wide, and is said to have the most persistent berries of all winterberry, sometimes lasting until spring. For a variation on color Winter Gold is a good choice ...

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 ...

I have always championed our native deciduous holly, Ilex decidua. But after seeing the magnificent deciduous winterberry holly full of fruit in Leonard Miller's Lendenwood Gardens in Grove, I ...

A hillside of gold in the Old Town community of North Columbus not only caught my eye but enticed me to get out of the car with my camera in hand. It was a hill planted with dozens of Winterberry ...

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.

Holly, with its distinctive pointed leaves and bright red berries, is a common sight at this time of year, at least on holiday cards and wrappings. Can you grow it in your garden? “That depends on ...

As long as there have been life forms who could look up at the sky and equate the path of the sun with earth’s change of seasons, the winter solstice at the end of the harvest season has been a reason ...

Well, here we are, folks. The Christmas tree has been stripped and unceremoniously tossed to the curb. The stockings and ornaments are back in their basement home. The last of the stale cookies have ...

Once the leaves have fallen and the landscape is dominated by shades of brown and gray, bright colors like red catch our attention. There are several red fruits that we may encounter in the late fall ...

A hillside of gold in the Old Town community of North Columbus not only caught my eye but enticed me to get out of the car with camera in hand. It was a hill planted with dozens of Winterberry hollies ...