Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite' Re-introduce Yerba maté remains rare in

Yerba maté remains rare in North American gardens

It needs a sunny site with well-drained sandy soil

or naturalized at the edge of the woods

an urban street

Few plants carry their history as plainly as Danae racemosa

Ilex verticillata 'Red Sprite' Re-introduce Yerba maté remains rare inIlex verticillata 'Red Sprite' is winterberry shrunk to garden size and cranked up in intensity. Where much of the landscape fades to gray, this compact native holly turns into a beacon, the bare stems packed with heavy clusters of large, glossy scarlet berries that color in fall and cling deep into winter, a living ember at the pond's edge or against fresh snow. Barely three to five feet tall and about as wide, dense and neatly rounded, 'Red Sprite'