Nellie Stevens Holly

Nellie Stevens Holly is easy to grow holly and grows up to 12m (40 feet) height and 4.5 m (15 feet) width. Even though many hollies categorized in shrub, this Nellie Stevens Holly is categorized as tree and forms pyramidal shape without big pruning cares. The berries and foliages are beautiful and good as a garden tree.

Berries of Winterberry Holly

This photo is a berries’ image of Winterberry Holly.

Winterberry Holly

Winterberry Holly is very popular shrub in USA. It grows up to 4.5m (15 feet) height and 3m (10 feet) width. Even though this shrub prefers to be planted in wet land area, it can grow in regular yard area, too. You can enjoy beautiful red (sometimes orange) berries in winter season.

Leaves and Berries of Red Holly

Red Holly is a beautiful pyramidal shape evergreen tree so this holly is great garden plant. This holly tree grows up to 6m (20 feet) and prefers to be planted in full sun or partial shaded area.

Sorry for the bad quality picture, I’ll try again to take picture for Red Holly when I have a chance.

Leaves of Longstalk Holly

Longstalk Holly is evergreen shrub or tree and grows up to 6m (20 feet) height and width. The berries have long stalk as name indicate (sorry when I took this Longstalk Holly picture, there are only a few berries under leaves and I couldn’t take good photo for them). This shrub attracts bees and butterflies well. So if you like these insects, plant this holly in your yard.

Berries of Myrtle Leaf Holly

Myrtle Leaf Holly grows up to 7.5m (25 feet). This shrub prefers moist soil. And this shrub (tree) has berries in fall to winter season on female tree and sometime they are used as Christmas decoration. The color berries are sometime yellow or orange.

Heavenly Bamboo

We call Heavenly Bamboo as “Nanten (南天)”. In Japan we are using whole of this plant as some medicines even though the leaves of this tree contains some toxic substances.

This is very popular shrub and plants in Japan as a garden tree. And the berries of Heavenly Bamboo are very important food for wild birds during winter season in Japan.

Black Tupelo

Black Tupelo is often called as Black Gum and this tree is very common in the area of eastern USA. The leaves spots are disease which occurs when the tree is planted on the soil of alkaline.

The berries of this tree are edible and they become good food for wild animals during autumn to winter.

Berries of Yaupon Holly

This photo is showing the leaves and berries of Yaupon Holly. Yaupon Holly is an evergreen shrub or tree and grows up to 9m. This shrub (tree) is very common in the area of south-east of USA and often planted as a garden tree. The berries of this shrub are preferred by wild birds so the garden where this shrub is planted attracts them well.

Leaves & Berries of Lusterleaf Holly

Lusterleaf Holly is evergreen shrub grows up to 8m (27feet). This holly tree has relatively large leaves (10~15cm long) unlike other holly tree as you can see on the picture.

Lusterleaf Holly likes full sun or partial shade area and easy to grow. The shape of tree is beautiful pyramidal.