free bird food (Holly)

Member Name: barbie84

Product:	Holly
Date:	11/03/08 (61 review reads)
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Advantages: a great looking plant that feeds the birds

Disadvantages: a bit prickly

Holly is definatley a plant or should i say a shrub which is what it actually is that we usually asociate with christmas but that is not its only use.

Its most comercial use is to make wreaths as christmas decorations but it is also a very nice shrub to have in your garden.

Holly as i have already said is a shrub, they can be brought as small shrubs from garden centers for about £10 each and soon grow into a lovely shrub with a thick almost tree like trunk at the bottom and lots of smaller brances growing off.

The most important thing about planting holly is where you plant it, it realy needs to be by a wall or a fence as it grows very tall and has a tendancy to get very battered by wind if you plant it somewhere with no protection.

Holly doesnt need a lot of light so you can put it almost anywhere even in shaded areas by walls, my holly bush is about 11 foot tall.

It is a realy nice plant to have in your garden as the leaves are green all year round, although very prickly and it gets red berries on it which give a lovely splash of colour to your garden, another use i have for mine is i have put it along the wall at the back of our garden, i pitty anyone who trys to climb into my garden.

All that said though its best use has to be as a food sorce for wild birds through the winter as although the berries on the holly bush will give us a bad stomach they are actually realy good for birds.

Summary: a great shrub