Plant: Golden Hoogendorn - Holly
Holly · Ilex crenata 'Golden Hoogendorn'
Size: 3 gal
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More about this plant
Golden Hoogendorn is a cultivar of Japanese holly, a slow growing dense broadleaf evergreen shrub carrying small glossy leaves under an inch and a quarter long with crenate margins. Fragrant dull greenish white flowers about one third of an inch across open in spring in clusters of one to three, and pollinated female plants bear small black berrylike drupes that ripen in early fall and persist into spring. It grows in full sun to partial shade on well drained acid to neutral clay, loam or sandy soil, tolerates drought, shade and poor soil, and suits low hedges, borders, foundation plantings and mass plantings.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 25 ft tall and 15 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-8
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Golden Hoogendorn is a cultivar of Japanese holly, a slow growing dense broadleaf evergreen shrub carrying small glossy leaves under an inch and a quarter long with crenate margins. Fragrant dull greenish white flowers about one third of an inch across open in spring in clusters of one to three, and pollinated female plants bear small black berrylike drupes that ripen in early fall and persist into spring. It grows in full sun to partial shade on well drained acid to neutral clay, loam or sandy soil, tolerates drought, shade and poor soil, and suits low hedges, borders, foundation plantings and mass plantings.
- Flowers
- Small greenish white fragrant flowers about one third to one half inch across appear in spring in clusters of one to three.
- Foliage
- Leaves are small, one half to one and a quarter inches long, crowded on the stems, shiny and dark green on the upper surface with crenate margins.
- Fruit
- Black globose berrylike drupes on pollinated female plants ripen in early fall and persist into spring.
- Native range
- East Nepal to Temperate East Asia, Japan and Korea
