HOLLY - how to tell male from female holly

[@Anna-jl3dy]

Loved this, learnt so much and really enjoyed the enthusiastic and good humoured presentation style, thank you!

[@stevesamoffgridsmallholdin5378]

Great video no nonsense no music listening to someone who’s passionate about trees. I needed to no what conditions holly like you answered my question at the end. Happy listener.

[@Whipporwhill]

Great info! Thank you. Love the beautiful specimens you showed here.🌿

[@davidweale9621]

Holly's aren't stupid, love it. Very informative looking forward to viewing your other videos.

[@juliekane1156]

Hollies aren't stupid! Love it. That's just how I look at plants.

[@nodlaigking571]

What a great lot of information. You know so much John. Keep doing the videos. They are fantastic.

[@donamurphy8182]

Finally I now know I have a male holly. I didn’t know males have flowers, I thought maybe it was a female that hadn’t been cross pollinated.

[@deegeraghty3421]

My holly tree at bottom of garden is plain green. Never had any berries so must be male. Love your joke about the confused gender holly tree that was not growing ! As if it could not make up its mind whether to grow or not !!! Your explanations are brilliant and zany. Thanks

[@Mike-su8si]

If it's a lighter shade of green it's a Male tree you'd know anyways in the spring when it makes the flowers and they smell really good an attracts tons of bees

[@fortheearth]

Happy Christmas, John! And best wishes for Happy Gardening in 2021.

[@grahamthomas1429]

GT update and info you explain very well thanks for your time 🐝🐞🐤👍👍👍

[@shimmyhinnah]

My takeaway..’Hollies are not stupid.’ Lol. Thank you, very good information.

[@rusticrick999]

7:22 "Hollies are stupid".

[@haditwithwork]

Very informative. Thank you!

[@hw9943]

Happy SOLSTICE and CHRISTMAS and Yule and winter half of Samhain John Thank you so much for your video here and all of your videos:) Love this and them all!

[@leomansfield2247]

Enjoyed your video. Can I take cuttings now from my common holly tree? Thank you

[@maryoshea933]

very informative

[@celtichongy]

Great video John, excellent information provided. What would happen I wonder if you tried to graft a female branch of holly onto a male trunk or conversely? Would you get an asexual plant resulting.

[@paulmacnally206]

Your great.

[@meowMix03]

enjoyable and educational thanks so much

[@mickstead796]

Thank you sir just brilliant

[@wishingonthemoon1]

This is helpful, thank you!

[@nicoles9573]

Such help information! Thank you! And I love the accent too. Irish?

[@d1m4d]

Loved this

[@Goshtkub]

Thank you John, could-different type of holly pollinate each other?

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

Yes if you’re talking about different varieties of the same holly species, as the differences are generally to do with leaf colour.

[@laurenb6451]

Is the single leader preference your personal taste or do you have reasons for this? The girl Golden King holly, does it need a particular pollinator? I always thought there were only specific pollinators for each variety based on bloom time bit maybe there is more to it...(hey I used my shovel today just like you do to chop away some big weeds on the empty lot next door and it works like a dream! Thank you!)

[@johnlordssecretgarden]

I prefer the single leader as the growth is all around one axis and it is easy to make a good pyramidal shape with a pointed top. Multiple leaders also result in forks and these can widen and sag.

[@raphlvlogs271]

Can they be used as living Christmas trees?

[@felixdsouza8359]

Hi John, thanks for such an informative video, i want to grow holly at the back of my garden( south facing) as a privacy hedge and as u said i too want it to go up straight with a visible stem. Would i be able to take big holly branches and propagate them? Would it work? As i the garden centre a 180cm holly is 100 pounds. Regards

[@donpowell4025]

Will they grow if planed in between some 50 feet pines? I have a lot of pines on my property but with gaps in between. I got a few needlepoint on sale I am trying to decide if I can drop them in between.

[@Mike-su8si]

Yeah they should grow just fine there I dug one up that was growing in full shade and now it's in more sun its gonna take it a few months to regrow new needle leaves back so its gonna look like a twig in the ground

[@Mike-su8si]

I have always gone by the leaf size an color of the spiky leaves. i like the multiple branches on mine all of mine have spike needle leaves

[@kimtingchaleun2910]

How do I care for it indoor?

[@meep2576]

I must have a male and females I didn’t get any Berry’s . How many years does it take to produce Berry’s ? I love holly

[@Mike-su8si]

Whenever it starts to flower out is when they'll start making the red berries if you have a female holly tree and if it gets pollinated I still believe they can still make berries even if they don't get pollinated all that'll cause is a dead seed that won't sprout out if planted. So you have a male

[@lykri3350]

I came here because I wonder what plant has little round red berries like a holly that grows here in PA USA. The leaves are shaped like the very first one you showed us, but they are not two-toned. They are just medium green. I don't know what else it could be.

[@adamwinter1478]

Was hoping for Red Dwarf stuff.

[@gregorybrown9344]

How do i water my small Holy

[@johnathondavis5208]

What if they identify differently or decide to transition?!?! 😊

[@meep2576]

I bought a dwarf holly and their getting big 🙀

[@Mike-su8si]

I get mine from my friends woods and don't really care if its male or female but I'd like another big male spike needle leaf holly so I was filling up the back yard with all kinds of tree's and holly tree's are really slow growers

[@plumcrazypreston2797]

John makes me so nervous with all his fast hopping about and fast excited voice. Take a good belt of whisky, John, and slow down, lad!

[@HighVerbal]

Is that cannabis hemp behind you @ 6:15 ?? .. if so , now we know Why you call it your Secret garden .. yesh?

[@shimmyhinnah]

Tomfarrar Talley ...Bamboo.

[@Mike-su8si]

It was tobacco

[@geoff3565]

How can we see if your jumping about waving your arms. Keep your hand still when showing us. Things

[@johnsmith7709]

Painful to watch with all the camera moving, shaking and out of focus. I barely made it 30 seconds and stopped. You earned my thumbs down.