Edible Nut, Fruit and Berries Week at Sheffield's

HAPPENING THIS WEEK
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We're Celebrating
 "The Best of Edible Berries, Fruit and Nut Trees"
  August 5-14
This is a chance to fill your news feed with helpful tips and fun facts.

Planting berry, fruit or nut tree seed in your yard adds beauty, shad and color plus the added reward of edilbe, nutritious fut and nuts. Flowering trees in the spring add color and texture to your landscape with brilliant golds to red in the fall. We aim to make seed shopping easier for all of you, so we created a new dedicated page on our website where you can browse the best edible nuts, fruit and berry tree seed! See the page here: https://sheffields.com/Fruits-and-Berry-Tree-Seed

Treestalk 🌲 Thursday Tis the Season for Holly

Tis' the Season for Holly🎄
Holly, or European Holly to distinguish it from related species, may also be called Christmas Holly or Mexican Holly.

Planted extensively in parks, gardens and hedges, particularly for its winter berries. 
An excellent hedge plant, tolerating hard clipping and maritime exposure and forming a dense stock-proof shelter. This species is a large evergreen shrub or pyramidal tree, growing up to 25 m tall, with glossy, dark green (though occasionally variegated), wavy-edged, spiny leaves 3-10 cm long and 2-5 cm wide. On higher branches (where grazing animals pose less of a threat) the leaves have virtually no spines.

The small, fragrant white flowers 💮 each have four petals and are insect-pollinated. The fruits are globe-shaped, 7-10 mm in diameter and are normally red, but can occasionally be yellow. They each contain four seeds, are usually borne in clusters, and are eaten by birds which disperse the seeds,

Ilex aquifolium was once among the traditional woods for Great Highland bagpipes .

Ilex aquifolium. Grow your own from Seed🌱 : Lean More.
https://www.sheffields.com/…/////English-Holly/English-Holly