A happy pair, our native ‘Winter Red’ Winterberry (Ilex verticilatta) and Miss Featherton, our resident American Robin. If you plan to grow winterberry in your native plants garden, be sure to also grow a male, like ‘Southern Gentleman.’ Although he doesn’t bear fruit, his flowers are needed for cross pollination. There is a newer female cultivar that I would love to try. She has the sweet name of ‘Berry Poppins,’ reportedly growing only only 3 to 4 feet in height.