A: It can depend on which female variety you’re growing. Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) produces male and female flowers on separate plants. Female plants produce fruit (berries ...

These were the fruits of a small tree or shrub known as winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata). Winterberry holly with abundant red berries as seen recently at the edge of a swamp. Though related ...

The most abundant color source of this season in my corner of New England, however, plants itself. It’s the winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata). Native to wetlands and moist soils throughout the ...

Here are some holly possibilities to consider. For more information on each of these plants, search on the Arboretum’s website at mortonarb.org. Common winterberry (Ilex verticillata): This ...

Ilex verticillata (Winterberry Holly) is a shrub, a beautiful shrub!!!! Its key feature is large, red berries on the female shrub forming late in the season and lasting into winter.

And does it ever attract pollinators! Winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata) is native to a large swath of the country, but ...

Holly found its way into solstice celebrations, considered magical because when all else in the forest was drab and leafless, holly’s glossy leaves and red berries gorgeously persisted.

like American holly (I. opaca), while others would be unrecognizable as hollies to most people. One of these unusual hollies is the winterberry (I. verticillata), whose deciduous foliage never ...

The happy couple must both be the same variety (ilex meserveae) China Boy/Girl, Blue Princess/Prince etc.). Less common are the Winterberry Holly (ilex verticillata), which lose their leaves in ...