From early summer into fall
Florida in 1990 and introduced by Woodlanders
One became the celebrated female 'Nellie R
Helleborus x hybridus is not one species but a garden hybrid
To grow one is to keep a piece of a vanishing forest alive
Ilex coriacea 25/11 Restock From early summer into fallIlex coriacea, the large gallberry, is a tall evergreen holly of the Southern wetlands, close kin to the familiar inkberry but built on a bigger scale, with broader, leathery, dark green leaves and larger fruit. On female plants the berries ripen to a shining black, a quiet contrast to the glossy foliage through fall and winter. The epithet coriacea means leathery, for those thick, durable leaves, but the plant is better known to some by another