Catalog Description
Promises that perfect pyramid shape so beautiful in formal gardens or under snow. This new form produces a dense plant of dark green serrated leaves. Tidies up with a gentle clipping for sharper geometry and retains good form as plants age. Produces a heavy crop of showy, bright red berries. Increase berries with male pollenizer. Use to flank a driveway entry or front porch steps. Plant alone as a pivotal focal point. Essential to topiary gardens for late season interest. Prefers slightly acid soils. Evergreen tree. Sun to part shade. Slow growth to just 12 feet tall and 8 feet wide. |
Design Ideas
Exploit the natural symmetry of this well shaped holly for beauty in every season. As a single it makes a large focal point for surrounding planting schemes. Excellent choice for marking corners and accenting curves. As pairs they are particularly useful to flank a driveway entry or front walk. In large tree groves it will stand out in sharp contrast against natural canopy deciduous trees, holding the landscape value in winter. This is an essential to parterres and formal topiary gardens. |
Companion Plants
|
Average Landscape Size
Slow growth to just 12 ft. tall and 8 ft. wide. |
Key Plant Benefits
This dense shrub has dark green serrated leaves and produces loads of showy, bright red berries. More berries with male pollenizer. Use to flank a driveway entry or front porch steps. Plant alone as a pivotal focal point or in a topiary garden. Evergreen. |
Care Instructions
Follow a regular watering schedule during the first growing season to establish a deep, extensive root system. Feed with a general purpose fertilizer before new growth begins in spring. For a tidy, neat appearance, shear annually to shape. |
Growth Conditions
| Growth Rate |
 Slow Growing |
| Growth Habit |
| Pyramidal |
| Heat Zones |
High:
| 9 (>120 to 150 days) |
| Low: | 1 (< 1 days) |
| Cold Hardiness |
| High: | 9 (20 to 30 F) (see map) |
| Low: | 6 (-10 to 0 F) |
| Water Requirements |
| Water regularly, when top 3 in. of soil is dry. |
| Sun Exposure |
| Full to partial sun |
|  |
|
Flowering
Flower or Bloom description:
Tiny, cup-shaped
| Flower Color |
| White |
| Flowering Time/Season |
| Small flowers in spring. |
|
Propagation
|
Attributes
Berries
Hedge Plant
Year-round Interest |
Foliage
|
Plant Lore
Holly has long been a favorite red berried evergreen for holiday decorating. |
Plant History
This is an openly pollenated seedling of Ilex 'Mary Nell', a famous variety which resulted from 1960s breeding three Asian species at Tom Dodd Nurseries at Semmes, Alabama. The cross invloved Ilex latifolia, Ilex cornuta 'Burfordii' and Ilex perneyi 'Red Delight' |
New Plant
|