new plants
- Subject: new plants
- From: E*@aol.com
- Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 11:57:47 EST
Here is something new for cold gardens. A new "on the market" this year
holly named 'Honey Maid' is around for this spring.
This would be from the Ilex x meserveae series. Honey Maid is a
traditionally holly shaped leave, deep blue/green in the center with a wide
white edge. Looks like one of the British hollies used in Christmas
decorations, one not hardy in the north.
It is described as a stately pyramidal plant reaching fifteen feet.
Having too much shrubbery around, I confine myself to one or two new plants a
spring and I will be looking for this one.
Ilex x meserveae, any cultivar, is hardy father north that rated. We have
all of them or nearly all of them and they do very well for us though
originally grown on Long Island. They also root easily resulting in,
actually, too many of them in our garden.
Honey Maid is marketed as a female plant so if you already have both halves
of any meserveae types you will need to buy only one of this variegated type.
Meserveae hollies have an interesting story. They were originally bred by a
gardener on Long Island in her kitchen. She wanted to achieve the more
attractive hollies for colder climates. A huge success.
Claire Peplowski
NYS z4
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