Monday, December 23, 2013

Winter Red

The deciduous holly (Ilex verticillata 'Winter Red') or Winterberry
http://utgardens.tennessee.edu/pom/holly.html
is bright against the dried stems of Miscanthus 'Cosmopoiltan"
One year deer ate the berries but they don't seem to have bothered with it since



To have berries you need a pollinator for this female variety of Winterberry.
'Southern Gentleman' is it's "husband" although you only need one male plant for several females. Oh the indignities even in the plant world!
 (I have been researching Carl Linnaeus' sexual system of plant classification for a talk in January hence the husband & wife reference)
http://www.linnean.org/Education+Resources/who_was_linnaeus

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