I've never had to prune her yet, she's still kind of small and has a beautiful shape. We just cut a few thin branches from the bottom to get some air in and make mowing a little easier. I didn't know that holly was sacred to some...that's interesting!

Touch a leaf for me in passing, would you? Maybe some network of communication will get the message back to the trees at our old house

I will! Isn't that a lovely idea, that the trees could have some kind of secret network between them all? I really do shake a little leaf whenever I get in the car...jeez, I'm getting horribly sentimental in my old age.