Ilex vomitoria 'Folsom's Weeping' Vines creamy-yellow to golden-orange flowers gather

creamy-yellow to golden-orange flowers gather in rounded clusters

Athyrium nipponicum 'Pictum' lays soft

standing behind charming miniatures such as 'Tiny Princess'

and the feathered crown is a case of convergent evolution rather than kinship

and across much of the United States the species has proven aggressively invasive

Ilex vomitoria 'Folsom's Weeping' Vines creamy-yellow to golden-orange flowers gatherYaupon is the fine textured evergreen holly of the Southeast, native along the coastal plain from Virginia to Texas and a member of the holly family, Aquifoliaceae. The species wears small, glossy, oval leaves on gray twigs, tolerates salt, drought, and hard shearing, and has long anchored Southern gardens as hedge, screen, and topiary. 'Folsom's Weeping' breaks from that upright habit entirely: a tall female selection whose branches spill downward in