Bringing Birds, Bees and Butterflies To Your Backyard
Bringing Birds, Bees and Butterflies To Your Backyard
Phonetic: EYE-leks
Shrubs can not be shipped.
Most shrubs will not be ready before the first week of June when they are fully leafed out.
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#2 Pot - 36" Shrub Only Females Available
Mountain Holly is an uncommon shrub of wet places but should be planted above the water line when used for naturalizing. It is fairly easy to recognize when flowering or fruiting, with long-stalked bright red fruits or pale flowers with ribbon-like petals. When flowers and fruits are absent, the leaves may help distinguish it: 1 to 2 inches long, hairless, toothless or with a few teeth at the tip, often with a minute point at the apex, and the leaf stalk usually purplish. The related Winterberry (Ilex verticillata) has larger, toothed leaves with hairy leaf stalks and small clusters of short-stalked flowers and fruits. The plant is dioecious, needing both male and female plants to produce the attractive berries. It is a host plant for the caterpillars of the Columbia silk moth, which has an impressive 3.5-inch wingspan.
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