Bailey showcases two native shrubs for Tennessee gardens: deciduous holly, which drops leaves before producing bright red winter berries, and black chokeberry, a zone 3 cold-hardy plant with white spring blooms, fall color, and black berries used for juices and jams.
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Hey everyone, it's Bailey with TN Nursery, and today we're grading black chokeberry and deciduous holly. The ones that looks like they have thorns on them, like these, are the deciduous holly, and they're a really, really cool shrub because it drops its leaves before it does its berries. And I'll show you in the end here what it looks like in wintertime. It is beautiful, and a lot of people use it in decorating. And these are our black chokeberry. Now black chokeberry is a really, really popular native plant. They're cold hardy all the way down to zone 3. They are so popular because they produce beautiful foliage, and followed by that is beautiful little white blooms, and then there's blackberries all over them. And the berries are rich in antioxidants. I've never ate them before, but a lot of people makes them into juices and jams, and they're really, really popular shrub. You'll see them a lot in the Middle Tennessee. A lot of people down here loves to use them in their landscaping. We have these buy one get one free. Here's our black chokeberry, and here's our deciduous holly. And here is our deciduous holly when they put off in beautiful little red berries, and here they are again. And then here they are in wintertime. This is why people love them. And then here is our black chokeberry, and here they are in the summertime when they produce their little, uh, berries, and in the fall they turn a vibrant red color too. We have limited stock. They're buy one, get one free. Shop now at tianursery.net.