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’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.

There are five different kinds of holly trees in Europe, and all are evergreen. The only holly that William Shakespeare would have known is the species called “European holly,” or Ilex aquifolium, ...