27+ Sky Pencil Japanese Holly Shrub

This evergreen will tolerate pollution so it would even make a good addition to an urban landscape. They produce small greenish flowers and female plants produce tiny black berries but neither is particularly ornamental.

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Sky pencil japanese holly shrub

The leaves are small in scale with the smaller size of this plant. Sky pencil hollies are narrow columnar shrubs that grow up to 8 feet 2 4 m tall and 2 feet 6 m wide. A narrow columnar form with dark green foliage that stays neat year round and often sports small purple berries in fall with a male pollenizer nearby.

It is native to forests thickets and mountain slopes in japan korea china and eastern russia sakhalin. Sky pencil holly has dense dark green foliage and a vertical growth habit that can bring vertical interest to your landscape. When one of these holly shrubs reaches 6 feet tall its width may be only 14 inches at the widest point.

Sky pencil holly is a slow growing columnar shrub that can grow up to 10 feet tall with a width just a small fraction of that. But no matter how you use it you can expect hassle free care. Ilex crenata commonly known as japanese holly or box leaved holly is a dense multi branched evergreen shrub with a rounded form that typically matures to 5 10 tall and as wide.

The sky pencil holly is a special form of the japanese holly. Japanese sky pencils are ideal for patios gardens porches and lots of other areas. Clusters of small white flowers appear in spring adding a delicate touch to that exciting season.

Especially since it can be planted as an accent on the corners of your exterior or in rows for a narrow hedge or alone as an ornamental. Famous for its good looks from our nation s capital to your backyard the sky pencil holly is a popular versatile evergreen tree. Great for a hedge specimen privacy screen container entry way accent and zen contemporary garden.

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