Holly

A striking choice that provides year-round interest and serves as great foundation plantings or hedges. There are hundreds of varieties of hollies, ranging from tiny shrubs less than a foot tall to towering trees reaching 70’. You can find varieties that produce red berries, white berries, pink berries, orange berries, yellow berries, even blue berries. The leaf shape will range from the spiny leaves that you see around the holidays to larger, smoother ones. Hollies are mainly dioecious-most forms have male flowers on one plant and females on another. A male pollinator is required for berries on the female plant.

American HollyIlex opaca
Similar to English holly but with duller leaves. The trees tend to be pyramidal in shape and make great barrier plants.

Holly American Jersey Princess female

Japanese Holly or Boxleaf HollyIlex crenata
Japanese Holly are dense, evergreen shrubs that vary in size depending on cultivar.The leaves are rather small and often shiny-much like a boxwood. Like many other broad- leaved evergreen shrubs, it prefers acid soils. The plant produces blue fruits but these are not ornamental and largely hidden by the leaves.
Mass or group. Hedge. Borders. Incorporate into a foundation planting.

Holly Chesapeake

Holly Compacta

Holly Green Luster

Holly Helleri

Holly Hoogendorn

Holly Schwoebel

Holly Sky Pencil

Holly Soft Touch

Holly Steeds

InkberryIlex glabra

Inkberry Compacta

Inkberry Densa

Inkberry Shamrock

Holly Hybrid

Holly Nellie Stevens- Ilex x aquifoliumi x I. cornuta
English & Chinese Hybrid. Vigorous growing with a broad pyramidal tree-like form, dense branching, and lustrous, dark green, leathery foliage. An excellent hedge, screen, or specimen. Produces large, bright orange-red berries without a male pollenizer; plant with a male Chinese Holly (Ilex cornuta) for increased berry set

Holly Dragon Lady- Ilex x aquipernyi

Holly Red Beauty- Ilex x. Rutzan

Holly x meserveae/ Blue Holly
Hybrids that do well in northern climates. Dark, lustrous leaves are evergreen and spiny. Like all hollies, there are separate male and female plants and both must be planted for the female plant to produce the showy fruit.

Holly Berri-Magic China m/f

Holly Blue Boy m

Holly Blue Girl f