Plant Database

Foster Holly is a dense, narrow to conical evergreen with narrow, spiny leaves. Foster Hollies are known to fruit heavily and are a good selection for use as specimens, foundation plantings for large buildings, and as screens....

Dwarf Burford Holly is one of the most common chinese hollies in commerce. It is a dense, rounded, evergreen shrub that produces a plethora of berries that turn brilliant red in the fall. This is a multi-purpose plant that can be used for mass planti...

Burford holly is a large growing shrub or small tree that has evergreen foliage and a very heavy berry set. THe berries turn a brilliant red in the fall. Burford holly is a good selection for a dense screen, a back drop for a mixed...

Carissa Holly is one of the most popular dwarf hollies that we grow. It is a dense, mounding evergreen with 2 to 3 inch long and 1 to 1.5 inch wide, pointed, glossy green leaves with a single, terminal spine. It is often used on commercial landscape ...

Needlepoint Holly is an evergreen shrub with an upright to conical form when it is young becoming broader as it ages. The plant developes a vivid red fruit and is a super selection for screening, massing, and grouping. It may also serve well as a fou...

O'Spring Holly is an evergreen holly with variegations of butter yellow in the foliage. It posesses an irregular, upright habit. O'Spring Holly is a male form, therefore it does not produce fruit but the foliage makes up for this. ...

Chesapeake Holly is a dense, upright, pyramidal grower with lustrous, dark green, convex leaves. This is a good selection to use in a container, as a specimen, or as a hedge....

Compacta Holly is probably the most used plant in the southeast. It is a globose grower with dark green, small leaves. It is used extensively as the foundation shrub of choice in front of newly constructed homes. The plant can also be used as a scree...

Green Luster Holly resembles compacta holly but it does not grow as tall as compacta. THis holly grows wider than it does tall. It has dark green, lustrous foliage and is a good choice for foundation plantings where the leswser height is needed....

Helleri Holly is a dwarf, mounded, compact, evergreen shrub with flat, short leves that are not as lustrous as many of the crenata cultivars. Helleri has historically been one of the most planted crenata hollies but has lost some popularity due to th...

Hoogendorn holly is a handsome crenata form that grows wider than tall and has flat, dark green leaves that are 3/4 to 1 inch long. The plant is a dense, compact grower and is excellent used in front of low foundations and in mass plantings....

Sky Pencil Holly is a slender, densely branched, extremely upright selection of the crenata hollies with lustrous deep green, 1 & 1/2 inch long leaves. This is a great selection for use on corners of buildings, to accent doorways, and to put in a con...

Soft Touch Holly is a dense, low, mounding form with a lighter green appearance and a soft texture. It is a good Helleri substitute and is great for low foundations and mass planting....

Steeds Holly is an upright, pyramidal holly with flat, lustrous, deep green leaves. It is a good selectiion for accenting corners of buildings, hedging, and containers....

Compact Inkberry is a cultivar of our native Inkberries that has a tighter branch structure and tighter growing foliage. It is a good choice for mass plantings, hedges, in a mixed border or as a foundation plant.

Densa Inkberry is a large growing, evergreen shrub that is a cultivar of our native Inkberry, It is a good choice for screening, mass planting, and in a mixed border. It grows 8 to 10 feet tall with a uniform oval to rounded shape.

Nigra Inkberry is a compact growing form of the native Inkberry that has large and thick green leaves with small white flowers in the spring followed by a black berry in the fall which persists through much of the winter. Nigra Inkberry is a good ...

Shamrock Inkberry is a cultivar of our native Ilex glabra. It is a compact form with lustrous, deep green leaves with the new leaves emerging bright green above the older, darker green foliage. This plant is a good multi-purpose plant for hedges, mas...

Greenleaf Holly is a cultivated hybrid of our native American Holly. It is an upright, pyramidal growing plant with spiny, medium green leaves and it produces bright red berries. It is a terriffic choice as a specimen, for planting on corners of larg...

Weeping Yaupon Holly is a large, upright growing evergreen with pendulous branches. The plant produces bright red, transluscent fruit. It is terrific to use as a specimen plant....

Shillings Dwarf Yaupon (aka Stokes Dwarf) is a low growing, dense, mounding, evergreen shrub that is often used for mass planting, foundation plantings, edging, and in borders....

Emily Bruner Holly is a broad, dense, pyramidal holly with large, dark green leaves and large fruit that encircle the stems. The fruit turns red and persists through winter. This is a terrific holly for screening or using as a specimen or on corners ...

Christmas Jewel Holly is an upright to pyramidal evergreen shrub reaching 10 feet tall and 8 feet wide. It is a prolific producer of berries which are red by Christmas and persist into summer. Christmas Jewel Holly is a good choice for use on corn...

Nellie Stevens Holly is an upright, dense, pyramidal growing evergreen with deep green, spiny foliage. THe plant developes fruit which turns red in autumn and often times persists through much of the winter. This is a superior selection for screening...

Henry's Garnet Seetspire is a selection of our native sweetspire that developes reddish purple fall color and 6" long, white flowers. This plant offers fragrant flowers when not much else is in flower and it does well in moist areas....

Sprich Sweetspire, better known as Little Henry, is a compact form of the species that has pure white panicle flowers in early summer and fantastic red fall color. It is a terrific plant to mass on banks, in beds and borders.