Ilex x attenuata 'Alagold' 24/11 Restock The flowers draw bees and

The flowers draw bees and butterflies

The rind sits loose on the flesh and slightly bumpy

For the gardener who already grows the common two and wants the wild original

Few cultivars in American horticulture are so permanently tied to a single small nursery in Aiken

standing quietly behind a whole lineage of garden selections

Ilex x attenuata 'Alagold' 24/11 Restock The flowers draw bees andThe Foster hollies are among the most planted evergreens in the South, a group of hybrids between the native dahoon, Ilex cassine, and the native American holly, Ilex opaca, raised at Foster Nursery in northern Alabama. They carry narrow, dark, lightly spined leaves on a neat pyramidal frame and fruit heavily in red. 'Alagold' is the exception in color: a yellow berried seedling of Foster number two, hanging clear amber gold fruit each winter against