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Ilex x meserveae 'Honey Jo'
Meserve Holly
Plant Type:
BROADLEAF EVERGREEN SHRUBSIlex x meserveae 'Honey Jo' - This less common Meserve Holly with its display of glossy leaves broadly margined honey gold is just plain beautiful. New leaves are entirely warm yellow as it can take some time before the hearts of the leaves develop the green. And the foliage contrasts beautifully with the dark black-purple stems. 'Honey Jo' is a female form and will develop bright red holly berries but it is the foliage that is the winning feature on this rarely offered form. What a beauty! Cutting grown.
Characteristics and Attributes for Ilex x meserveae 'Honey Jo'
Season of Interest (Flowering)
- Spring
Season of Interest (Foliage)
- Four Seasons
Interesting Bark
- Colored
Autumn Interest
- Fruit / Berries / Seed Heads
Nature Attraction
- Songbirds
- Honey Bees & Native Bees
Light
- Sun Tolerant
- Shade Tolerant
Attributes
- Hedgerow
- Accent
- Foundation
- Border
- Screen
- Evergreen
- Shrub Border
- Specimen
Growth Rate in the Garden
- Slow
Soil
- Fertile
- Moist
- Acid
Origins
- Garden Origin
Propagated By
- Cutting Grown
Genus Overview: Ilex
Common Name: Holly
Hollies from midgets to monsters are wonderful shrubs! Some are evergreen, others deciduous with females revealing copious crops of bright fruit from autumn into winter in various colors which are cultivar dependent. The Ilex x meserveae cultivars are just plain beautiful evergreens happy in sun to open shade in fertile, acid and moisture retaining soils. Winterberries, Ilex verticillata, are happy in full to mostly sunny sites in moist to even wet soils; they are often great autumn/winter fixtures in roadside ditches. The midgets are cute in the rock garden or even in containers. Ilex cornuta's spiny leaves look like giant glossy green mutant horned beetles - just fascinating in their structure. All are terrific wildlife plants and they add so much beauty and multi-seasonal appeal. Cutting grown.