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Anyone grow "Berry Poppins" winterberry (Ilex verticillata)?

14 days ago

I picked up a couple of these, have never grown them. I'm mostly wondering how the berry production compares to "Red Sprite". My Sprites set heavy crops, am nothing but thrilled with them but can't seem to find them locally anymore so ended up with the "Berry Poppins".


I wasn't sure if my male would pollinate these (I don't even remember what my male is, TBH...), so I also got the male pollinator "Mr. Poppins" just to be safe.


On a side note, I also have "Little Goblin Red" winterberries, but the plants have the male and female in the same clump, so I find they berry production isn't as heavy per bush. That's the only way the nursery sold them when I bought them. Also, the bushes are bare on the bottom, for some reason the foliage doesn't clothe them to the ground. I probably wouldn't buy them again for these reasons unless that's all I could find.

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