Ilex vomitoria 'Folsom's Weeping' Vines The kinship is real

The kinship is real

then hang on as the last summersweet leaves to fall in autumn

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

a clump builds quickly into a strong vertical presence

founding the Los Angeles Camellia Society in 1948 and rising to president of the American Camellia Society by 1957

Ilex vomitoria 'Folsom's Weeping' Vines The kinship is realYaupon 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