Hedges also offer landscaping color and wildlife habitat. "If it's as simple as a toyon hedge, it can provide food for birds," says Dirk Moyer, a Menlo Park landscape architect who prefers hedges ...

Heteromeles arbutifolia (toyon, California holly, Christmas berry): This glossy-leaf evergreen shrub is likely at the top of every list of native hedge candidates. Called toyon by the Ohlone ...

This is a great year for toyon berries. Toyon, Heteromeles arbutifolia, is our California native holly. So convincing is its impersonation - at least by the standards of early European immigrants ...

As the berries ripen during late fall on the 15-foot-high toyon, they change from green to orange. By mid-December, the large clumps have reached a startling shade of red -- a shout for attention.

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles City Council voted Tuesday to name the native, drought-tolerant toyon plant as the city’s official plant. The toyon – its formal name is Heteromeles arbutifoila ...

dense hedge. I should note that although Chinese photinia fruits are virtually identical in their appearance to those of toyon, local wildlife hardly takes notice of them; this is one of the ...

Toyon or Christmas berry Heteromeles arbutifolia Size: 10 to 15 feet tall Bloom season: Spring Pruning needs: Little or none. Exposure: Full sun to partial shade. Water needs: Once established ...

Fourteenth-generation Californian and longtime La Crescenta resident, Richard Toyon also is a family man. He and wife, Stacy have two sons and a daughter, students at Holy Redeemer School in ...