Ilex Glabra Berry

Tearing out a mature inkberry holly ilex glabra shrub is hard work as a diy project and expensive to hire out.

Ilex glabra berry. Plant strongbox inkberry holly instead. Gem box ilex glabra smnigab17 uspp 27 554 can 5 629. Love boxwood but struggle with disease or winter damage. Ilex glabra l a. While the berries aren t edible for humans many birds and small animals are fond of them in the winter. Gray inkberry subordinate taxa. Full sun 6 hours part sun 4 6 hours full shade up to 4 hours.

However there are no compatible males currently on the market to ensure the cross pollination required for fruit to form. Federal government or a state. The optimum amount of sun or shade each plant needs to thrive. Ilex glabra gem box inkberry is a dwarf broadleaf evergreen of compact rounded habit with a lush foliage of small dainty dark green leaves adorned with attractive red tips during the spring flush. Inkberry ilex gabra is a form of evergreen holly that is very easy to grow. This plant has no children legal status. Ilex glabra shamrock inkberry is an evergreen stoloniferous shrub of compact rounded habit with a slender foliage of thick spineless dark green leaves.

Common names are from state and federal lists. Gem box inkberry holly is a female variety and can potentially develop berries. Native alternative to boxwood. It takes much less time effort and money to renovate your past its prime inkberry. This native evergreen naturally grows as a broadly rounded mound and keeps its. Inkberry holly shrubs ilex glabra also known as gallberry shrubs are native to the southeastern united states. It works well massed in border plantings or as an informal hedge plant.

These attractive plants fill a number of landscaping uses from shorter hedges to tall specimen plantings. In late spring to early summer it produces abundant small greenish white flowers that are followed by a profusion of dark blue black berries in fall. It maintains good branching right to the ground so it never looks bare legged. Threatened and endangered information. Ilex glabra also known as appalachian tea dye leaves evergreen winterberry gallberry and inkberry is a species of evergreen holly native to the coastal plain of eastern north america from coastal nova scotia to florida and west to louisiana where it is most commonly found in sandy woods and peripheries of swamps and bogs.