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Holly is Not Just for Christmas

Holly is Not Just for Christmas

Get an early start on Christmas decorations before the birds eat your berries.
Get out and plan where you will pick your holly for Christmas decorations now. As the berries ripen the birds descend and scoff the lot just when you are not looking.
You can condition the stems, leaves and berries and placing stalks in a glycerin solution. They will take up the liquid and become supple and longer lasting. Crush the stems and use warm glycerin then leave for a couple of weeks.

Holly


These variegated Holly trees are part of a holly hedge grown for decorative purposes not cutting for Christmas.

Holly in the Wild

These berries look like they have already had the glycerin treatment but this is just how they were growing in a local Yorkshire field.
I did leave the berries for the birds in case it is a cold winter.

Other Hollies

  • Chinese Holly Ilex cornuta also known as the hedgehog Holly for its prickly nature.
  • Ilex aquifolium variant Ferox Argentea is pretty but bristly
  • Ilex has over 500 other varieties. Most need a male and female plant to produce berries.
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