Dear Reader: To my other readers: Some hollies, including yaupons, bear their male and female flowers on separate plants. Therefore, you must know when you choose your plant whether you are ...

The best hollies for your yard or garden From small shrubs to tall trees, ... Has small white flowers in spring and red berries in winter. Has smooth, light-colored bark.

The males, like the females, do bear flowers, but neither male nor female holly flowers are worth a second look unless you want to peer closely to determine the sex of the plant.

Hollies flower on old wood and new wood carries foliage, next year's flower buds and additional stem. Pruning that removes new wood does not affect the production of flowers and the berries this year.

Hollies can be used to augment any design, adding contrast, texture, color and structure like few other plants. They range in size from very short, 6 inches tall to a 70 feet tall towering giant ...

Hollies can be used to augment any design, adding contrast, texture, color and structure like few other plants. They range in size from very short, 6 inches tall to a 70 feet tall towering giant ...

Ditto with the hollies. You may see few to no flowers and berries this season from the severe "deer pruning," but holly are also pretty good about pushing out new buds from the inner, remaining wood.

BY Adrian Higgins/The Washington PostIt 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 ...

There are hollies with variegated leaves, such as the English holly, Ilex aquifolium “Ferox Argentea.” Most hollies produce red berries, but some produce orange, yellow and even black or white ...