Hints and tips:
...In the week before Christmas my favourite varieties were far more heavily berried than old bushes of holly. I used them indoors in winter arrangements where the berries last well....
...The preference is for tough evergreens that maverick shoppers cannot walk through: hollies, yews, cotoneasters and pyracanthas....
...Zhou’s inventive cocktails, meanwhile, fuse classic spirits with oriental flavours including goji berries, ume plum, osmanthus and lapsang souchong tea....
...layers of Bird’s custard, strawberry jelly, tinned mandarin segments and cream, topped with all manner of things raided from the back of the cupboard: hundreds and thousands, rock-hard silver balls and holly...
...It grows fast, provides blossom and berries for a great diversity of wildlife, and is amenable to any amount of topiarising....
...Ilex x altaclerensis Golden King (a female holly) has glossy, dark green leaves with golden margins....
...Within a few weeks of Branwell’s death, she is felled by the same disease, the tell-tale splatter of blood “red as holly berries” on the “blank canvas of [her] handkerchief”....
.../ From Holly Trusted, Duns Tew, Oxfordshire, UK Northerner’s plea for bit of sumptuous extravagance / From Chris Mcilwaine (Mrs), Holmes Chapel, Cheshire, UK...
...We’ll bring more foliage into the house and use it in other ways: we arrange branches of shining red berries in vases, while a few old cast-iron urns get stuffed with much larger branches of holly....
...She forages for twigs, berries and leaves, barters with neighbours for cuttings, and adds seashells from holidays....
...In the powder blue 1830s drawing room exhibit, holly was neatly tucked behind the gilt frames of modest paintings....
...Other choices in other research categories are less persuasive: is a holly tree really one of the best choices for a small garden? It has berries for birds but so do maluses and sorbuses....
...“I’m not a massive fan of really traditional burgundy red candles and holly,” she says. “You can have everything that matches on a table but sometimes it looks a bit contrived....
...This is Christmas cards with holly leaves and berries lino cut in the style of William Morris, who’s a British designer, artist, poet, very famous for his sort of recurring natural motifs used on wallpapers...
...Plant berry-bearing trees and bushes. Redwings appreciate a snack from rowans, holly, berberis or cotoneasters. Breaking the ice in ponds and bird baths provides them with drink....
...To design a new town square in Wealdstone, Harrow, Holly Lewis of We Made That, a group of researchers, teachers and architects, began by asking local businesses for their input: “They weren’t interested...
...Cotoneaster bullatus is aptly known in America as hollyberry, a semi-evergreen variety that has bright round red berries just like a holly’s. I love it....
...Grab from your local hedgerows (leave sufficient berries for birds) and get hanging, draping and strewing....
...“Consumers show a bias towards investing in brands they know,” says Holly Mackay, founder of independent investment website Boring Money....
...Meanwhile, even the wettest November has not blunted the autumn colours on beech trees or the quantity of berries on cotoneasters....
...A Christmas Carol, by Charles Dickens (updated) The brightness of the shops, where holly sprigs and berries crackled in the lamp heat of the windows, made pale faces ruddy as they passed....
...Holly (Ilex aquifolium): slow-growing. Uncomfortable to maintain....
...Deep-green holly is tangled everywhere, but we leave it: “Taking all the berries is not good, because it is the birds’ only source of food in extreme cold,” says Scotter....
...It is a deep tangled mess of grape, rose, berry and other vines. I am tough, but this is too much and the snakes are tricky....
...He then pours in gin (often No.3 London Dry Gin from Berry Bros & Rudd) or vodka so fresh from the freezer....
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