Friday, December 14, 2012

Ilex purpurea


This is a beautiful underused holly. Fairly compact with a good shape and clean foliage, it holds its berries, nicely arranged, on purplish stalks. This plant is growing on the flood plain of the Anacostia River below the Asian Collections. We don't have data on it's source but it has been here a good many years.

Tony led a "pest walk" through the growing area this morning




We saw a good variety of pests; some of them were living on beautiful plants.