There’s more to hollies than berries

I HAVE grown a great number of hollies over the years and, as have many gardeners, have rather taken them for granted as useful evergreens for dry and difficult sites. The truth is that they are among the most impressive and variable of garden evergreens. Take a species such as , for example. Its lustrous leaves are as large and smooth as a laurel’s. No one who encounters this vision of loveliness for the first time could fail to genuflect, even