Featured Plant:HOLLY

Holly is a must-have shrub for every landscape. This evergreen is beautiful in every season. It’s hardy, requires little care and resists pests and ailments common to many other shrubs. Lavalette Nursery has many varieties to choose from. And because container-grown shrubs can be planted at any time, why not take advantage of our mild winter and get a head start on sprucing up your yard. Here’s a sample of what you’ll find at Lavalette:

Honeymooners Holly -- This shrub is a combination of a Blue Girl and Blue Boy, a unique combination that creates a self-pollinating plant that produces an abundance of berries. This outstanding hardy holly with lustrous dark green leaves on purplish blue stems creates a striking effect in the landscape. It grows 8 to 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

Oak Leaf Red Holly -- This newly introduced red hybrid holly has a tall elegant pyramidal form. Its emerald green foliage is charmingly similar in shape to oak leaves. At maturity, it reaches 14 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

Foster’s Holly -- This pyramidal evergreen thrives in sun or shade and is often used as an accent plant. It has glossy dark green leaves and attractive red berries in fall and winter. It can grow to 27 feet high and 15 feet wide.

Steed’s Upright Holly -- This upright pyramidal evergreen shrub has luscious but small dark green leaves. It tolerates pruning and shaping and can be sheared to almost any shape. It’s suitable for hedges and foundation plantings and can reach 7 feet tall and 4 feet wide without pruning.

 

Oakland Holly -- This upright evergreen has vibrant green oak leaf shaped foliage with red berries in fall and winter. It can grow 14 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

 

Blue Maid Holly -- Perhaps the most hardy of all the blue hollies, this vigorous grower has large bright red berries and achieves a broad pyramidal growth habit. It can reach 12 feet tall and 8 feet wide.

 

Ilex Blue Girl -- This pyramidal holly has very dark, almost blue green, glossy leaves which turn slightly purplish in the winter. It grows 8 to 12 feet tall.

Dwarf Burford Holly -- This compact grower is a miniature version of one of the most popular hollies. It’s a prolific bearer of bright red berries. It grows slowly to 4 to 6 feet tall and wide.

China Girl -- This is an upright, dense, evergreen shrub. The glossy dark green leaves have spiny-tooth margins. Attractive red berries are prolific in fall and winter. It can grow to 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide.


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