RE: Holly berries.....
- To: "'perennials@mallorn.com'"
- Subject: RE: Holly berries.....
- From: S* S*
- Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 09:09:44 -0700
If you're interested in feeding the birds, chokeberry (aronia) is a
wonderful plant. It will even tolerate some dry shade. Mine is staying at
about 8' tall and 4' wide. Small, fragrant white flowers in the spring,
green leaves in the summer, which I grow a clematis through, and then
brilliant red foliage and berries in the fall. The birds totally chow down
on them in the winter.
Other wonderful berry plant(s) are most of the viburnums. Viburnum opulus
compactum has maple-shaped leaves, white lace-cap hydrangea-like flowers in
the spring and the most gorgeous red berries you'll ever see. They are a
translucent, vibrant red. The birds do not eat these.
Check out the viburnum family -- most berry beautifully and many have
fragrant flowers.
I do have a variegated holly, too, but hollies are dioecious (you must have
male and female). I bought a female (for the berries) knowing that there
were many holly trees in my neighborhood, and trusting that some of them
were male. The birds love these berries as well.
Susan Saxton, zone 6b
For mine is just a little old fashioned garden where the
flowers come together to praise the Lord and teach all
who look upon them to do likewise.
Celia Thaxter
I AM in shape. ROUND is a shape!
> -----Original Message-----
> From: kswingle@inet.guthrie.org [k*@inet.guthrie.org]
> Sent: Tuesday, April 20, 1999 5:55 AM
> To: perennials@mallorn.com
> Subject: Holly berries.....
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> I would like to plant some holly berry or winterberry shrubs, I was
> wondering if all their berries are poisonous to humans? Could anyone
> suggest a successful kind for Zone 5? Thanks
>
> Kimberly Swingle MS, MT(ASCP)
> Guthrie Laboratory
> Sayre, Pa
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