Q: I have a 6-foot-tall winterberry holly that got leggy this year. I pruned it, but that just made it worse. Can I prune it back to the ground in spring? Will that make it come back fuller and denser ...

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 ...

Its clusters of red berries begin to color in September, but they are barely noticed because of the abundant green foliage (without prickles). By October, the leaves have turned a golden yellow and ...

It may come as a surprise to many people that there are hollies that not only drop their leaves in advance of winter but become stunning landscape plants in the process. I am thinking of the ...

We are told that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The gardener, who is more attuned to light and shadow than most, knows that this idea is off quite a bit at this time of year. In early ...

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.

When you “Deck the Halls With Boughs of Holly,” winterberry holly is the holly to use. When most people think of hollies, they think of the glossy dark green shiny foliage with bright red berries that ...

Common winterberry, Ilex verticillata, is a worthwhile addition to any birdwatcher’s garden. The fruit feeds many species of birds, including American robin, eastern bluebirds and bluejays. The plant ...

We are told that the sun rises in the east and sets in the west. The gardener, who is more attuned to light and shadow than most, knows that this idea is off quite a bit at this time of year. In early ...

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 ...