Q: I recently bought an Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite' (female) plant. It is suggested that an Ilex 'Jim Dandy' (male) plant be used to pollinate the 'Red Sprite.' I already have an Ilex x ...

If you are looking to add some holiday cheer to your garden, a wonderful native plant option is the Ilex verticillata, or winterberry. Its cheery red berries festooned on bare branches are a sight ...

However, I. verticillata is also a dioecious plant, meaning there are separate male and female plants. This cultivar is one of the female, or fruit-bearing, plants that stand out so vividly in a ...

Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) is a type of native holly. This shrub prefers moist, acidic soils and light shade but can tolerate average soils if the soil is not too dry in a partly shaded site ...

From the holly family, Ilex verticillata (common winterberry), with its bright red fruit, lining a bed at Norfolk Botanical Garden. This native shrub is tolerant of a wide variety of sites, includi… ...

Winterberry, or Ilex verticillata, is truly a spectacular sight in winter – long whips of red berries against a white background, or any place where a spot of bright red is welcome. This holl… ...

In the gray of central Ohio winters, the Franklin Park Conservatory’s garden has a new show star: Winter Gold winterberry holly (Ilex verticillata ‘Winter Gold’). Need a break? Play the USA ...

If a punch of red is what you’re after, consider winterberry (Ilex verticillata), which loses its leaves in winter but can be covered with spectacular scarlet fruit against bare stems.

The holly, whose botanical name is Ilex, has for centuries played a large part in medical, superstitious and religious lore among such ancient and disparate groups as the Greeks, Romans, Druids and… ...

HOLDERNESS, N.H. — This is a particularly good year for gathering common winterberry for the holidays. Ilex verticillata, also known as Michigan holly and black alder, is a bush most often found ...