Luxus® Compact Japanese Holly

Tiny glossy foliage compactly-growing, naturally neat, tidy, rounded form, the Luxus® Compact Japanese Holly (Ilex crenata 'Annys5') is a fantastic broadleaf evergreen! Create easy landscape definition with these multi-stemmed, densely-branched little bushes for year-round formal landscaping without any fuss!

Spring brings tiny, nearly inconspicuous greenish blooms, and even if you don't notice them, the local bees will seek them out! If you have any female Compact Japanese Holly shrubs with a male Luxus® nearby, you'll enjoy black tiny berries that the songbirds will love! But Luxus® itself is a male only clone, so you won't see any fruit in general.

Luxus® Compact Japanese Holly only grows to about 2 feet in height and width, creating a compact rounded ball of greenery! Because it is so very compact, it won't grow fast. It doesn't need to! This means less maintenance on your part, just some waiting as it works diligently to grow to full size. So plan accordingly for its future mature size. Nature Hills ships established mature root systems, so your wait time is cut in half!

Planting and Application:

Luxus® Compact Japanese Holly can be used as you would Boxwood and are ideal alternatives to Boxwood shrubs due to their disease and pest-resistance! Becoming fantastic edging along garden paths and borders, as facer shrubs to hide leggy stems of larger, more mature plants (as long as they aren't sitting in the shade of these larger plants), and defining landscaping beds in both formal and informal settings all year long and make your landscape feel like a castle garden.

Create a solid fill by planting these little garden gems 1-2 feet apart and letting them grow together over time. For a looser, more visual mini-hedge, plant 2-3 feet apart to create the feel there is a border. You'll love creating gardens lined in Holly hedges to create your own little Sissinghurst-style Castle gardens!

Small enough to create year-round green thrillers and focal points anywhere in the sun! Try potting up Luxus® in formal urns and lining your driveway or set a matched pair on either side of your sunny front door. You will create an inviting easy modern display without the need for a lot of work!

Want to have some fun? Try your hand at Topiary or Bonsai with these evergreen little wonders! Even if you have a tiny landscape or just a container garden, you'll be able to enjoy regal Luxus® as a year-round green specimen as long as you have some sun!

• Packed With Glossy, Tiny Green Leaves
• Compact Rounded Broadleaf Evergreen Shrub
• Great For Topiary & Bonsai
• Tiny Greenish Flowers Pollinators Adore
• Male Only Clone
• Low Hedges, Formal & Informal Applications, Containers & Specimens

#ProPlantTips for Care:

Easy to grow throughout USDA hardiness zones 6 to 9, these Compact Japanese Holly varieties are best in full sun to partial sun settings. Any well-drained slightly acidic site works great! For the best head start, plant your Japanese Holly with Nature Hills Root Booster for lifelong symbiotic root system support that never needs reapplied!

To further support these shrubs, top-dress the root zone with 3-4 inches of arborist mulch, pine straw or pine bark mulch. These little shrubs should rarely need pruning, but if you choose to do some trimming, only do so after the first flush of spring growth.

• Full Sun to Partial Sun Locations
• Moderate Regular Moisture
• Slightly Acidic Well-Drained Soils
• Prune After First Flush Of Spring Growth
• Highly Disease & Pest-Resistant

For easy breezy formal landscaping luxury, choose the Luxus® Compact Japanese Holly for that royal feel to your garden without needing an entire team of landscapers! Order now at Nature Hills Nursery!