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 ...

The young oaks, toyon, ceanothuses ... The Carolina cherry hedge planted when I didn’t know better needs removing to make way for more coffeeberry successors, which were put in nearby last ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...