Ilex pedunculosa (female) prophouse-summer-2027 half-inch flowers gather in terminal

half-inch flowers gather in terminal clusters atop three-foot stems

and other moisture-lovers native to the same low ground

easy to place at the front of a border or in a mass

and give a little afternoon shade where summers are fierce

We propagated her anyway

Ilex pedunculosa (female) prophouse-summer-2027 half-inch flowers gather in terminalIlex pedunculosa is the holly that fools people, an evergreen with smooth, spineless, glossy leaves closer to mountain laurel than to any prickly Christmas holly. The real signature comes in fall, when bright red berries hang from slender stalks an inch or two long, dangling below the branches like tiny cherries, a detail no other cultivated holly quite matches and the source of both the botanical name and the common one, longstalk holly. The epithet