Just because the boom months of garden growing season are over, it doesn't mean there aren't trees, bushes, and flowers you should plant in the fall for a little prolonged beauty. With the right ...

At our house this week, we're celebrating the Holly Berry Bonanza. As a result of winter's multiple freeze-thaw cycles, last fall's rock-hard holly berries have turned into nice, soft munchies that ...

Q. Do all holly bushes have berries? — Julie, Goshen. A. Unlike most plants, which are capable of self-fertilization and setting fruit or seed all by themselves, dioecious plants are different, ...

Q: I am thinking of buying a ‘Blue Boy’ holly. I heard you had to have two plants to get berries. Is that true? A: Holly is what is known as a “dioecious” plant, which means you need two plants–a male ...

In a berry-focused garden, you can add a variety of plants offering berries almost all year. Berries are often a primary food ...

The No. 1 question people ask me about holly is “why doesn’t my holly have red berries?” It seems like everyone that plants holly, myself included, do so because they want the red berries. I can see ...

What to do this week: Continue cleaning up and raking debris from lawns and flower beds. Pull mulch back from the trunks of shrubs and trees and from emerging bulb and perennial foliage so it is not ...

As I was trimming holly branches to bring in the house, I wondered if I’m destroying the berries for next year. Are they like hydrangea and only bloom on old wood (or new growth, depending on the ...

In Nancy Dale’s 1986 epic tome of Southern California native plants, “Flowering Plants,” she says this about toyon — aka California holly, Christmas berry, or, if you’re a botanist, Heteromeles ...