Blue Maid™ Meserve Holly

A colorful twist to a classic broadleaf evergreen, the Blue Maid™ Meserve Holly (Ilex x meserveae 'Blue Maid' PP# 4685) is a fantastically shiny accent shrub! Insignificant white flowers appear in late spring and attract your local pollinators.

Year-round, intensely evergreen foliage has a high-gloss shine and blue to purple highlights, and stems, plus extraordinary bright red berries to enhance your landscape big time!

The wavy edges won't stab like traditional Holly but retain that classic leaf shape. The dense growth is bushy, rounded, and typically getting 8-10 feet tall and 6-8 feet wide, but could be a bit larger with age. However, you can prune to any size or shape you'd prefer.

Then for winter interest, plant one Blue Prince male Holly for every 3-5 Blue Maid™ female Hollies for the female plants to produce plenty of incredible red, showy fruits. Plant the male plants within 30 feet or so of the females. Even though the male plants will not fruit, they are incredibly handsome! If you do have both plants nearby, you and your local songbird population will enjoy eye-catching clusters of vivid red berries!

How to Use Blue Maid™ Meserve Holly In The Landscape

A shining plant like this deserves to be your landscape specimen plant or high-style accent. Gleaming year-round with steady evergreen, Blue Maid™ will highlight any bed or border it's incorporated into. The dark green leaves and blue tint compliments any garden style!

Imagine a row of Blue Maid™ Meserve Holly sparkling in the sun as an impressive privacy hedge or barrier. A cool zig-zagging line defines your property fashionably, or a pair of sentries welcoming guests to your front door will look divine!

The bushy erect growth is perfect for a wide range of garden designs and applications. Fitting into rustic country gardens as an amazing backdrop to your garden beds, or anchoring borders. Zen and Asian-inspired gardens shine and Contemporary formal beds and courtyards.

Boost curb appeal exponentially with a row as your foundation planting. Plant one as an accent in your favorite garden urn or on a raised berm to further set this amazing plant apart!

The dark blue-green foliage color holds true in part sun and partial shade, Blue Maid™ can handle edge-of-the-woods plantings, naturalized areas, and wildlife gardens without getting much attention from Deer.

Ilex meserveae berries provide your holiday décor and container plantings with ample shiny red gems.

#ProPlantTips For Care

The fast growth of Blue Maid™ Meserve Holly means fast privacy and no waiting for them to fill in large areas. The dense growth lends itself perfectly to formally pruned shapes readily and speedy privacy. With winter hardiness and heat tolerance in growing zones 5 through 9, these can take the partial sun in hot climates, while shrugging off cold climates with ease where they can tolerate full sun.

These Blue Holly tolerate acidic soil and higher moisture levels but do need well-drained soils. Standing up to urban pollution, they're not particular about soil type.

This is a polished and highly ornamental shrub that needs very little from you. Order this very unique shrub today from Nature Hills Nursery and let Blue Maid™ Meserve Holly shine for you!