2023年12月21日 · Holly bushes can serve as foundation plants for the front of your house, or you can shape them into trees instead. These are our favorite types of holly.

Taller evergreen holly varieties are perfect plants for screens and hedges. This is due to their year-round foliage, ease of pruning, and generally quick growth rate. Tight growers such as Japanese hollies and Meserve hollies (also known as blue hollies) make good hedges. As do English hollies, whose spiny leaves provide a useful barrier.

2022年4月5日 · Since most are evergreen and many have colorful berries, they are a boon to the snowy landscape, making them symbolic of winter and the Christmas season. Holly shrubs can be used as hedges, foundation plantings, border screens, or even as specimen plants or rain garden plants. Here are 5 common types of holly shrubs for your landscape.

2024年7月22日 · Holly trees and shrubs are evergreen or deciduous plants that add color to your landscape with their glossy leaves and colorful fruit.

2021年12月9日 · Virtually all holly species are dioecious, meaning that if you want fruit you’ll have to plant both male and female. The holly plant is a part of the Ilex genus, which consists of roughly 480 species of evergreen and deciduous shrubs, trees, and climbing lianas.

Holly bushes bear lovely evergreen leaves year-round and also bear attractive red berries. If you’d like to grow your own boughs to Deck the Halls, this is the plant. And they’re easy to grow! Learn how to plant, grow, and care for hollies.

2021年3月29日 · There are two common types of holly categories: evergreen and deciduous. Here are some popular types of holly shrubs to grow in the landscape. Chinese Holly (I. cornuta): These evergreen shrubs have dark green leaves with pronounced spines.

Several evergreen hollies that combine attractive foliage with abundant, colorful fruit make good specimen plants. A few English holly (Ilex aquifolium) cultivars offer great range in plant size, fruit color, foliage shape, and variegation.

2022年5月16日 · Of the 480 varieties of holly plants in the Ilex genus, 10 main varieties have made their way into general gardening; of these, some are evergreen while others are deciduous.

2024年3月10日 · Below, we have compiled a list of 25 types of Holly Trees to help you narrow your search. 1. American Holly Tree. The American Holly Tree is an evergreen, ornamental tree that can reach an incredible height from 25 feet up to over 60 feet, and its spread goes from 18 to 40 feet. Female plants are known for their bright red berries.