Ilex Heckenblau® - Meserve blue holly

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$6.85
This dark green-blue-purple hedging holly is rock-solid cold hardy, grows in sunshine, and looks moodily magnificent all year round. Grow it as a feature shrub, or a handsome and dense evergreen privacy hedge. Heck is German for hedge, and this is definitely a hecking good hedging plant.

snow image, branch image: FD Richards; Japanese garden hedge image: cultivar413 cropped to size.

We can't ship this product to Tasmania, Western Australia.

Ilex aquifolium x rugosa Heckenblau® - Meserve holly, blue holly
APPEARANCE : Evergreen ornamental shrub, fast-growing for a holly. Pointed-oval glossy leaves with softly spiny edges are burgundy when new, turning deep green in summer and deep plum with a dark bluish tint in winter. Stems are dark purple-brown; flowers are small, opening white from pale pink buds. Good male pollinator for other holly varieties. Meserve hollies are hybrids originally created by Kathleen K Meserve, of Japanese and English hollies, to give cold hardiness and beautiful foliage.
USE FOR : Screening, feature shrub-tree. Excellent security hedging. Cut the stems and berries for home decoration.
PLANTING : Tolerates full sun if watered regularly, and given some afternoon shade in hot summers. Prefers slightly acidic, moist, well-drained rich soils; but generally happy in most garden conditions. Mulch and water on a regular basis, until the plant is established, usually around 12 weeks. Antarctic levels of cold tolerance.
CARE : Gentle pruning to shape the plant if necessary, and for plants grown in deep shade. Supplementary water in drought periods.
HEIGHT & WIDTH : 2-3 m H x 2 m W.
YOUR PLANTS : These plants are tubestock plants, healthy young plants with new roots that will establish quickly in your garden. The pot size is 80mm high and 42 mm wide.

We can't ship this product to Tasmania or Western Australia for biosecurity reasons.

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