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Smallholding => Techniques and skills => Topic started by: deepinthewoods on October 07, 2011, 06:18:33 pm

Title: holly.
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 07, 2011, 06:18:33 pm

net a holly tree thats full of berries now, before the birds get them, for cutting and selling to florists for christmas! ;)

Title: Re: holly.
Post by: Plantoid on October 09, 2011, 08:06:22 pm

Do you have any idea if you can graft a female cutting or two onto a male tree ?.
we have six  males just over the back fence and no berries but not far away is a female with berries

Title: Re: holly.
Post by: deepinthewoods on October 09, 2011, 08:11:32 pm

i cant see why not.
ive a few trees here, last year only one produced berries, this year three have, i thought the other two were males.

Title: Re: holly.
Post by: graham-j on December 17, 2012, 08:42:22 am

Hi,I wish I had red this post back in october,there isan't a berry left on are tree now it was loaded then. :(

Graham.

Title: Re: holly.
Post by: in the hills on December 17, 2012, 09:54:15 am

Made holly wreaths yesterday and OH had to walk miles to find berries  ;D . The ones that I had spotted had been stripped bare. Daughter says Redwings were the culprits.  ::) ;D

Title: Re: holly.
Post by: Foobar on December 21, 2012, 04:53:10 pm

Snip some of the top branches (where the leaves are less prickly) and feed them to your sheep/cattle. :)