Did you know you need Male & Female holly trees to produce holly berries?
Channel: Zwartbles Ireland Suzanna Crampton
Date: 2020-05-03

Holly trees are flowering now so all sorts of pollenators are at work playing Cupid between boy & girl holly trees. There are modern highbred holly trees which can produce berries without an alternate sex. But I’ve found that birds prefer the old fashioned traditional holly berries that come from the ancient traditional breeding practice of male & female trees and will eat their berries in winter before the modern highbred berries. 

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