Holly shrub

Last year I added several 'Soft Touch' compact hollies (Ilex crenata) to my landscape, and I have been pleased with their performance so far. This unassuming but useful shrub grows at a moderate rate to 2-3' wide and tall, prefers full sun, is hardy in zones 5-9, and its leaves are not prickly. It may sport black berries in winter, though my eight young shrubs didn't produce any this year. I have used various types of boxwoods (45 of them in all) to create a winter skeleton and to calm down…

The holly family includes a diverse group of shrubs and trees. With so much variation, you?re sure to find one to fill your landscape need. Take a look at some of the different types of hollies in this article.

Classy dwarf burfordii holly is an elegant and formal South Florida shrub that also blends in with more casual landscapes of flowering or tropical plants and ornamental grasses. Read all about it!

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Need ideas for evergreen alternatives to #boxwoods? Try the cute and clippable Shear Genius™ Cotoneaster, Monrovia's new Emerald Boxer™ Japanese Holly, the tiny toothed leaves of Crownshine™ Osmanthus, or the remarkably cold-hardy Nordic™ Inkberry, a selection of a native North American shrub with berries for birds. Find even more compact, colorful, and elegant evergreens to replace boxwoods in areas bothered by blight in our full list of alternatives.

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Most of us spend relatively little time in the garden during the winter months. Of course there are jobs to be done, but with plants growing slowly, short days, inclement weather and sometimes froz…

Holly trees and bushes encompass more than 400 plant species. The majority of these are dioecious, so they require both a male and female plant within pollination distance of each other in order for the female to produce fruits. Holly can be evergreen or deciduous and range greatly in size and shape.

Japanese hollies are easy-care evergreen shrubs that come in an array of shapes and sizes. Learn about 21 of the best varieties now on Gardener’s Path.

This is the bush that inspired this blog: I really wish I had a before picture, but it never really occurred to me to take a picture of the hideousness that was this bush before I pruned it. Beacu…