When we moved to our current house, very little landscaping had been done. In the area that now is my cottage garden, there was a hawthorn tree growing that was brushing against the south side of the ...

Holly might not normally seem like a large enough plant to use for privacy, but that's not the case with this cultivar. Nellie Stevens holly (Ilex 'Nellie R. Stevens') can actually reach heights of 30 ...

Deer have stripped all the leaves off my evergreen and my Nellie Stevens holly. Will they grow back, or should I cut them down? Some evergreen species tolerate deer “pruning” well and put out new ...

However, my go-to tall privacy screen is Nellie R. Stevens holly. It grows to 12 to 15 feet tall and 8 or 9 feet wide with very infrequent trimming. It actually can grow even larger in Southeast and ...

Dear Neil: I have a rural property in East Texas where I’m trying to establish a privacy screen. I want to use Nellie R. Stevens hollies. The fence is 270 feet long. How many plants would I need (how ...