Talk:American Winterberry

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How come I can't see the previous question when I'm editing but I can when I look at page History? Servers too slow or something? Anyway.

Question was re holly article saying hollies are dioecious (period), while this article said some hollies are self pollinating. Most are dioecious. Some are self-pollinating, which is quite a sales advantage, when trying to convince a customer, who just wants to plunk a pretty plant into his garden, to buy a breeding pair of hollies, one of which will never have any berries, particularly when there is no good way to identify a male except for examining the flowers, at which point you don't want to transplant them, so the chances of getting two females which won't produce any berries is a bit too high. So there was a real motivation to find self-pollinating varities, such as Ilex aquifolium Pyramidalis, Foster holly, Burford holly, dwarf Burford holly or Nellie R. Stevens holly, list the authorities. I see one every day, a single holly bush, evergreen, usually covered in berries, but don't know the variety. Gzuckier 16:12, 22 Oct 2004 (UTC)

[edit] winter holly

will the dwarf male winter holly "sprite" pollinate the standard size female winter holly? Can a male pollinate a female if 2 miles apart? thanks for your reply!!