We love to use holly on outdoor wreaths (it dries out too quickly to use indoors) but many years our holly supplies are meager.  Some holly bushes produce berries prolifically every other year, some years available holly bushes have been pruned at an inopportune time for our purposes, and some years our members with available holly have simply not been home at wreath time.  When a member who lives in Maine arrived on Thursday of wreath week with a bag of splendid holly, the decorators pounced.  She arrived around lunch time, and by the time most of us had grabbed a sandwich, the holly was gone – used beautifully in wreaths such as the one below.