"It's time for mistletoe and holly." Lots of people are familiar with Frank Sinatra's classic Christmas carol, "Mistletoe and Holly," and many of us decorate our homes with these familiar and ...

Now that holiday music is a staple on many car radios, I started to wonder about all those holiday plants often mentioned in so many catchy tunes. Some of you might be out there decking the halls with ...

Every year, almost without thinking about it, we incorporate certain plant species into out Christmas celebrations. The most obvious is the Christmas tree, linked historically in England to Prince ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. White berries fill a clump of mistletoe hanging from an oak. As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door ...

Tradition held strong in a Worcestershire town hit by flooding, as its annual holly and mistletoe auction went ahead. Tenbury Wells is widely known as the "mistletoe capital", and has been holding the ...

There are certain plants that are associated with the winter celebrations. Here are some and tips for caring for them: *Amaryllis: This huge tropical bulb was covered in detail a few weeks ago.

This holiday season, we're tracing our favorite traditions back to their beginnings - today, mistletoe. ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: This time of the year it's all over the place - at parties, in music, in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Hollies are one potentially hazardous plant for pets around the holidays. What would the holidays be without plants? From boughs ...

While poinsettias have an undeserved reputation for being poisonous, as you’d have to eat a few hundred poinsettia leaves to get sick, an expert says two other traditional holiday plants are ...

As a young child living in Virginia, I recall kids going door to door selling sprigs of mistletoe in the weeks before Christmas. My mother always bought some and hung it along with some holly over a ...