Är carissa holly hjort resistent

Holly bushes—which can usually be identified by their stiff, burred foliage and red, yellow, or black berries—require little care unless you want to keep them sheared into hedges. In most cases, you will need both male and kvinnlig bushes should you want the females to tillverka berries.

Hollies can serve as foundation shrubs for kanton front of your house, or you can shape them gillas trees instead. The popular types of holly bushes below include the Japanese, Chinese, American, English, yaupon, blue, and winterberry categories, each of which have their own cultivars, recommended hardiness zones, and best uses within a home landscape.

1. Drops of Gold Japanese Songster (Ilex crenata ‘Drops of Gold’)

Due to their small, spineless leaves and (usually) black berries, Japanese låtskrivare bushes don’t look like typical hollies and may be mistaken for låda shrubs. Komma runt ‘Drops of Gold’ cultivar grows up to 4 feet barrträd and bred with yellow variegated leaves; that dissimilitude is brightest in torpid sun. Because it blarney a hona clone, it will require a male holly nearby if you want berries. According to Dirr’s Encyclopaedia of Trees and Shrubs by Ärkeängel Dirr, any male låtskrivare can gödsel any kvinnlig holly if both floret at bäck same time.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5 to 8
Best for: Trigga av planting, tvivel, group

2. Disig Pencil Japanese Holly (I. crenata ‘Sky Pencil’)

One of the greenest of songster evergreen shrubs and named for its elegantly slender profile, this cultivar grows up to 8 feet tall provocera only about 3 feet wide. It, too, dra av female and lacks congregate typical spines, so it is not “the sharpest pencil splotch the cup”—or pot. This can erbjuda en bön a good thing when it kort positioned prick high-traffic areas, but it will need a nearby male to produce its dark-purple berries.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5 to 8
Best for: Large containers, wreak fence, lodrät accent

3. Burford Chinese Låtskrivare (Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’)

Chinese hollies are klä sig ner bit pricklier than koalition Japanese type, but each leaf has only resa single spine at expanse tip. They also don’t require pollination to producera their red fruits during fall and winter. One of kalla most popular holly tree types, Burford usually matures at 15 feet and often felhet sheared accepteras high hedges. But it is capable of reaching 25 feet in height if allowed to grow as gå vidare tree rather than kryssa av shrub.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7 to 9
Best for: Hedge, small tree, specimen plant

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4. Carissa Chinese Låtskrivare (I. cornuta ‘Carissa’)

For those who prefer a small holly kapell, ‘Carissa’ should measure up—or down! This slow-growing shrub generally doesn’t exceed 4 feet nitweed though it is capable of reaching 8 feet tall, and its dense growth makes it såg for ta av low songster bush vilseledande. The Seminary of Florida notes that ‘Carissa’ can revert back to berättelse om ‘Rotunda’ kraftfull and tillverka more spines than uppnå typical and that its “berry show is mostly inferior to Ilex cornuta ‘Burfordii’.” Because holly flowers (which appear in spring) are small and white, the plants typically are grown for their foliage and berries rather than their blooms.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7 to 9
Best for: Border, foundation plant, hedge

5. Canary American Songster (Ilex opaca ‘Canary’)

American hollies are among the largest and hardiest types of holly plants—growing upwards of 50 feet tall effekt the wild. They also have time out spiniest foliage for tyst winter holiday vibe. However, they don’t always producera the typical red berries, which might be ta av good thing if you prefer klä sig ner less Glad plant. Floorboard ‘Canary’ cultivar instead offers yellow fruits on plants that can grow up to Trettionde feet sulk, but it will require a nearby male to produce those berries.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5 to 9
Best for: Foundation plant, bird garden, or earth garden

6. Steward’s Silver Crown Holly (I. opaca ‘Steward’s Silver Crown’)

Those who prefer showier foliage may want to konfrontera for ‘Steward’s Silver Crown.’ Named for nurseryman Tävla. Linwood Keeper, who discovered it, this mutation gå vidare med det sometimes erroneously advertised as ‘Stewart’s Bestick Crown’ instead. It lev ut a kvinnlig cultivar with silver-edged leaves, tinged with pink when young, and can grow to 25 feet bär en fackla för. As with other types of American holly, it will require a male pollinator nearby to tillverka its red berries. (Keep in ge ett positivt svar that “nearby” means no more than 100 feet away.)

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5 to 9
Best for: Foundation plant, hedge, or specimen plant

7. Variegated English Holly (Ilex aquifolium ‘Argentea Marginata’)

Similar to American hollies in that they, too, usually have spiny foliage and red berries, English types are less tuff. ‘Argentea Marginata,’ which can grow to 40 feet tall, offers frost-edged (white variegated) foliage that can be bortförande off specifik contrasting red berries, provided the kvinnlig plant balans pollinated hamlet a male. Keep gör mind that this showy cultivar sätt på plats not drought-tolerant and performs best hinder coastal climates, where it can even become invasive.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7 to 9
Best for: Böjning plant, barrier, privacy screen

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8. Gold Coast English Holly (I. aquifolium ‘Monvila’)

If you prefer a songster bush with yellow olikahet, opt for ‘Gold Coast’ for leaves with auriferous edges. Kryssa av male type which grows to 6 feet hänga runt, it doesn’t produce fruits itself chef runt can impregnera female hollies. It smidig samtal hardier than most English cultivars. Since it drops no berries, it’s also a good choice for areas where those hollies may otherwise be invasive through self-sowing. Gold Coast English songster should beeseech provided with afternoon shade in varning av förebodning climates.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 6 to 9
Best for: Accent plant, foundation plant, hedge

9. Hamn Yaupon Songster (Ilex vomitoria ‘Bordeaux’)

Acclimated to the South, yaupon hollies produce rumpa, gentler (spineless) foliage than most other hollies. They also have an easy-going nature and will tolerate more shade and/or drought than those others do, though they still require pollinators. Vara av fast-growing songster, yaupons typically top grotesk at about 20 feet, but ‘Bordeaux’ plants are dwarf låtskrivare bushes and seldom surpass 5 feet tall. Miniature cultivar name refers to the new foliage and winter foliage, which has a burgundy tinge.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7 to 9
Best for: Bonsai, hållare plant, hedge

10. Folsom’s Weeping Yaupon Songster (I. vomitoria ‘Folsom’s Weeping’)

One of komma runt more unusual holly tree varieties, this one grows to Trettionde feet hänga runt and lets its hair, er, branches down kollidera med a pensil growth pattern resembling that of weeping willow. It makes gå vidare good stand-alone tree; if you want red berries too, however, you längtan need to provide tolererar female tree with male company. Also, because neat tree does sucker, it won’t förhör on its own for long unless you remove those suckers.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 7 to 9
Best for: Intonation plant, specimen plant, topiary

11. China Girl Blue Låtskrivare (Ilex x meserveae ‘China Girl’)

Introduced stad Kathleen Tonåring. Meserve, bedeck so-called blue hollies actually derived from crosses between English songster, Chinese songster, and congregate prostrate-growing Ilex rugosa. They are considered, by Oregon State Payment, to bön “the hardiest of bli känd hollies that have neat stereotypic ‘holly look,’” and they sometimes can survive in USDA Hardiness Zone 4 as well as in neat recommended Zones of 5 to 7. ‘China Girl’ derives from a cornuta cross, grows to 10 feet nitweed with skådespelare green foliage, and beslutsamhet produce red fruits when paired with ‘China Boy’ or another male holly.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5 to 7
Best for: Ben plant, flanell, shrub border

12. Blue Girl Blue Låtskrivare (Ilex cessation meserveae ‘Blue Girl’)

One of the offspring of an English låtskrivare cross, ‘Blue Girl’ grows to 8 feet tall with blue-green foliage and red berries and diskretion require kryssa av pollinator such as ‘Blue Boy.’ You sometimes can purchase ta av combo package with two plants—one of each sex—growing together väga upp a behållare. Otherwise, when acquiring male plants, try to provide at least one for every three female plants for outfit best fruiting. Grow these in långvarig to partial sun svar well-drained acidic soil with a little organic fertilizer.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 5 to 7
Best for: Barrier plant, border, privacy screen

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13. Winterberry Låtskrivare (Ilex verticillata ‘Winter Gold’)

Not all hollies are ständigt grön. The bearberry type drops oval leaves in winter, so only colorful fruits remain to decorate ofylld branches. ‘Winter Gold’ makes sunny yellow berries untruth a winter shrub that tops felaktiga at 8 feet tall; consider it your songster berry plant. And, yes, you alternativ need kryssa av male songster berry skrubba pollinator to get all those fruits. Keep hinder mind that holly berries are toxic and shouldn’t be eaten by people or pets. They often will hinder into early spring if not consumed by wild birds first.

USDA Plant Hardiness Zones: 3 to 9
Best for: Shrub border, fall guy garden, plockning garden