Josh Clark

But it is pretty, and I love all the berries, and I love the birds coming to eat the berries, and I love that the birds love that I love the birds coming to eat the berries, and so on and so forth.

So I do have a special place in my heart for holly.

I have no idea.

There's only like 10 people who can pronounce Welsh.

Yeah, I like that one.

Yeah.

There you go.

End of root word segment.

Yeah.

So one thing I didn't know is apparently in longstanding tradition, because this is, holly is another great example of how you associate with Christmas.

Christians have kind of adopted it with their own kind of symbolism associated with it.

But it goes back way further than that.

And it's kind of from all over the place because holly grows in not just Europe,

Not just North America, but Asia as well.

It's a really well-traveled, well-trod shrub that because it stands out so much in winter, it's usually evergreen.

Those leaves are unmistakable.

The berries are just so bright red against like a snowy background.

It does make a lot of sense that cultures from around the world and over the course of time would have been like that.

I'm going to drape a bunch of symbolism on that plant.

Which has a huge influence on Christmas.