RE: Ilex decidua planting

I was at a meeting at the University of Tennessee  attending a National Garden Club flower show school this week.  The instructor said that both sexes of hollies were planted in same pot to insure polleniation.  The hollies would not take up so much garden space that way.  Everything would be just fine as long as the male was marked so it did not get cut out.  I can see coming out to beautiful berries in the fall and here are the branches without berries.  One would need to be reminded that there was a good reason for those branches.
Nancy 



 The bees can fly a long way...I have read 6 miles but would not want them to have to travel that far.  Just do not plant in shade since I have blooms but no berries there.  Got to have a male for each type which I had but Southern Gentleman died twice.  I get some berries on Autumn Glow but not enough.  the butterflies love the blooms though and it is close enough to a good chair to watch them in the afternoons.
Nancy  Tennessee


On Sun, Mar 16, 2014 at 3:59 PM, Don Martinson wrote:

  I just purchased a pair (male/female) of Ilex decidua âWarrenâs Red.  Is there any compelling reason why I could not plant them together, resulting in what would essentially be a double stemmed shrub? I realize the downside of this would be that only the female side would bear fruit.  If I plant them separately, how far would I be able to separate them, yet obtain sufficient pollination for good fruit set?


-- Don Martinson
   Milwaukee, WI

"If you are not killing plants, you are not really stretching yourself as a gardener."
   ~J. C. Raulston

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