How Do You Prune A Yaupon Holly Tree?
The yaupon holly is a shrub or tree, depending on methods of cultivation, native to the United States. It grows well throughout the South as far north as Virginia and along the West Coast to Canada. Native Americans and some early settlers once dried the leaves of the yaupon holly to make tea. The curious scientific name for the yaupon holly, ilex vomitoria, derives from the unpleasant effects of ingesting the leaves of the tree without first drying them completely. Wear gloves to prune your yaupon holly. While the plant does not have thorns, the leaves tend to be tough and their slightly serrated edges can scratch. Consider pruning your yaupon holly into tree form to reveal its unique contorted trunk or trunks. When the plant is young, you might decide whether to allow multiple relatively equal-sized trunks to develop or to train the plant to a single trunk. Either is capable of producing a strong plant. It is best to begin trimming plants into tree form in early spring. To reveal the
