Plant: Glow Stick® Japanese Holly
Holly · Ilex crenata 'NCIC2'
Size: 2 gal
Light
Bloom
Mature size
More about this plant
Glow Stick is a narrow columnar Japanese holly that grows 4 to 6 feet tall but only about a foot wide, so it gives vertical line in the tightest spaces. Its small evergreen leaves are a bright yellowy green with golden tones that hold through harsh winters and full sun without discolouring. It takes part shade to sun with average moisture in moist, acidic, well drained soil, needs almost no pruning, and works as an accent, a container specimen, a narrow border or a repeated vertical in a mass planting.
- Full Sun
- Grows to 6 ft tall and 1 ft wide
- Blooms in spring
- Hardy in USDA zones 5-9
- Evergreen foliage
Plant description
Glow Stick is a narrow columnar Japanese holly that grows 4 to 6 feet tall but only about a foot wide, so it gives vertical line in the tightest spaces. Its small evergreen leaves are a bright yellowy green with golden tones that hold through harsh winters and full sun without discolouring. It takes part shade to sun with average moisture in moist, acidic, well drained soil, needs almost no pruning, and works as an accent, a container specimen, a narrow border or a repeated vertical in a mass planting.
- Foliage
- Small yellowy green to golden evergreen leaves that weather harsh winters and full sun without discolouring.
- Pruning
- Pruning is seldom needed, but the plant may be shaped in late winter. Prefers moist, acidic, well drained soil with mulch; apply an evergreen fertilizer in spring.
- Native range
- East Nepal to temperate East Asia, Japan and Korea
