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Pollenizer for Ilex x 'Rock Garden'

3 years ago

So if you loathed huge, prickly hollies, but found yourself with a very dwarf female holly, and you wanted berries, what would be your pick for a male holly to pollenize this reportedly complex hybrid?

The best solution I can think of is to talk my neighbor into planting a huge, prickly, male holly! But seriously, I found Ilex 'Little Rascal' online, y'all reckon he would get the job done? Is he readily available?

My Ilex 'Rock Garden' is in a container and will probably remain there for a long time unless she grows more rapidly than expected. This is USDA zone 8 Willamette Valley, OR.

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artinnaturez8b
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3 years ago
Update: My Ilex 'Rock Garden' is somehow laden with berries! I walk our newly built neighborhood regularly, seeing what others are planting, and have not seen any hollies (they aren't particularly popular these days). there are some big, old hollies in an older part of town about 1/2 mile south, but I have only seen females with berries. There must be a male though, and the wind must be carrying pollen to my little plant.

Related: me and my neighbor each have Ilex x 'Screenplay', hers is loaded with berries, mine has a few.

I guess this is why hollies have become weedy in the northwest, the pollen finds its target no matter how far away!
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